Patient's question:
The child is only 5 months old when a hard lump is discovered in the liver. After examination, it is found that there is a tumor measuring 3.5 cm in each of the left and right lobes. The hospital diagnosis is pediatric hepatoblastoma. The doctor recommends immediate treatment. What are the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) treatment methods for pediatric hepatoblastoma?Doctor's answer:
Treatment primarily involves surgical resection. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy provides a new treatment option for conventional unresectable hepatoblastoma. Utilizing the physical characteristics of ultrasound, such as its visibility, tissue penetration, and focalability, HIFU therapy can externally locate and directly destroy deep-seated tumor tissue within the body through ultrasound heating effects, mechanical effects, and cavitation effects. It minimally affects surrounding normal tissues, offers precise targeting, non-invasive "resection," no radiation pollution, and significant therapeutic efficacy. Combining ultrasound ablation therapy with surgical resection can greatly improve the complete resection rate of hepatoblastoma.