Ablative radiofrequency therapy versus surgery in hepatocellular carcinoma

Background: Liver cancer is the result of abnormal growth of cells in the body; this type of cancer represents a health problem around the world. Among the most frequent primary carcinomas we have hepatocarcinoma.

Methodology: A narrative review was carried out through various databases from 2018 to 2022; the search and selection of articles was carried out in indexed journals in English and Spanish. The following keywords were used: therapy, radiofrequency, surgery, hepatocarcinoma.

Results: treatment options such as ablation therapies are very effective curative techniques largely due to the low morbidity they tend to present, on the other hand, surgical resection is one of the treatment options of first choice still when it comes to hepatocellular carcinoma.

Conclusion: there are different approaches for liver cancer, in the case of primary hepatocellular carcinoma, among these approaches we have radiofrequency ablation, which is a minimally invasive procedure, to more complex procedures such as liver reception.