S.V. Golovko, E.A. Bidula, V.R. Balabanik

The role of arterial embolisation in the treatment of kidney cancer (literature review)

Although no prospective randomized trials have been performed to date to demonstrate the best clinical and oncological results of embolization, several retrospective studies using arterial embolization for patients with renal cell carcinoma have shown encouraging results.

Arterial embolization should be used as a neoadjuvant therapy prior to surgical resection of renal cell carcinoma to reduce the tumor and minimize intraoperative bleeding. Arterial embolization can also be used for palliative purposes in kidney cancer in the treatment of pain and hematuria, which is not amenable to conservative treatment.