Liver Tumors & Cancer

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WHO WE ARE — Seattle Cancer Care Alliance is a world-class cancer treatment center that unites doctors from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, UW Medicine and Seattle Children's. Learn More

Overview

From accurate staging to the state-of-the-art treatments, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) patients receive the best care possible from some of the world’s leading doctors. Patients receive a comprehensive evaluation and consensus recommendation on diagnosis and personalized treatment plan from a panel of liver tumor specialists including surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, transplant hepatologists, surgeons, diagnostic and interventional radiologists, and pathologists. We treat a broad array of primary and second tumors:

Primary Tumors   Secondary Tumors
Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Cholangiocarcinoma:
  • Intrahepatic/Extrahepatic/Hilar
Gallbladder Carcinoma
Adenomas Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
Hemangioma
Cysts:
  • Simple, Complex, Polycystic
  • Echinococcal
  • Choledochal
  Colorectal
Breast
Neuroendocrine/Carcinoid
Uterine/Ovarian/Cervical
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
Lung
Melanoma
Pancreas
Sarcoma

The Liver Tumor Clinic team offers the full spectrum and latest in diagnosis and treatment:

  • Surgical resection: laparoscopic, open, or daVinci robotic
  • Radiofrequency ablation: percutaneous, laparoscopic, open, or thoracoscopic
  • "NanoKnife" Irreversible Electroporation: percutaneous, laparoscopic, or open
  • Chemoembolization
  • Radioembolization
  • Transplantation
  • Systemic therapy
  • Radiation therapy

New Treatments in Clinical Studies

SCCA was formed, in part, to bring promising new treatments to patients faster. For you, this means more treatment options at SCCA than might be found elsewhere, including participation in one of many ongoing clinical research studies conducted at SCCA and its founding organizations, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and UW Medicine.