Abstract
Locally applied external radiotherapy, either alone or in combination with chemotherapy, frequently leads to significant improvement in primary and metastatic cancer of the liver. Mostly it has a palliative effect in metastatic disease and may play an equally palliative role in unresectable primary liver tumors [11, 19]. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy may also palliate the symptoms of patients with unresectable gallbladder cancer but certainly does not produce long-term survival.
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zum Winkel, K., Wieland, C., Weischedel, U. (1986). Therapeutic Strategies in Primary and Metastatic Liver Cancer: Indication and Results of External Radiation Therapy. In: Herfarth, C., Schlag, P., Hohenberger, P. (eds) Therapeutic Strategies in Primary and Metastatic Liver Cancer. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 100. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82635-1_36
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