Is ablation of liver cancer as good as resection?
At this time resection is felt to be superior to ablation of liver cancers with either heat or cold. We do not have the long history with the newer techniques of radiofrequency ablation to know how these patients will do over the long term of the next two decades. Also the radiofrequency techniques are still in evolution and there are times when different surgeons have different opinions. Certainly, however, many patients with liver cancer are not resection candidates, yet still may be offered the potential for cure with ablation.
