Yonsei Cancer Hospital publishes ‘Healing the diseased liver in silence, with doctors’
Yonsei Cancer Center recently published a book titled ‘Silence, Treating a Sick Liver with Doctors’ to help understand liver disease and introduce the latest treatments. This is the third book in the health series of Yonsei Cancer Hospital, which has been written by professors at Yonsei Cancer Hospital for patients and the general public since last year.
In the book, 11 liver disease specialists, including gastroenterology, oncology, transplant surgery, and radiation oncology, easily explain the symptoms, diagnosis, and prevention of various liver diseases, such as hepatitis, liver cirrhosis, and liver cancer, with various materials and related photos. .
Gastroenterology Professor Beom-Kyung Kim and Mi-Na Kim introduce the causes, symptoms, and treatment of hepatitis A, B, and C, which are the representative liver diseases in Korea, and are viral hepatitis. Professor Joon-yong Park of the Department of Gastroenterology explains in detail the management and treatment of liver cirrhosis following the progression of hepatitis.
Hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery professor Choi Ki-hong emphasizes that open surgery with a large surgical area is only applicable in special cases, and most patients can expect smaller surgical scars as well as faster recovery and higher treatment rates through the latest laparoscopic and robotic surgery.
In addition, you can hear liver transplantation surgery methods, such as liver donation from a brain dead person, living-donor liver transplantation, and blood-type incompatible liver transplantation, explained by Professor Joo Dong-jin of the Department of Transplant Surgery, who is an expert in liver transplantation.
Professor Seong Jin-sil of the Department of Radiation Oncology introduces radiation therapy, which is a method of destroying cancer cells by irradiating the human body with high-energy radiation. In addition to this, Yonsei Cancer Hospital is presenting a new breakthrough in the treatment of intractable liver cancer through heavy particle therapy, which is the first in Korea.
Meanwhile, Yonsei Cancer Center’s Liver Cancer Center is a multidisciplinary, one-stop system in which specialists from various fields, such as gastroenterology, hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery, transplant surgery, radiation oncology, and radiology, form a team to participate in the entire treatment process, raising the results of treatment. .
Reporter Hwang Hae-sun [email protected]
2023-05-09 18:00:00
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