Supporting Liver Cancer Treatment

The Duke Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology uses radioactive microspheres to treat patients with breast and colon cancer that has spread to the liver. The Radiation Safety Division of OESO supports our interventional radiologists in the following ways:

• Ensuring that all practitioners are authorized by North Carolina’s regulatory agency to use two types of microspheres labeled with yttrium-90
• Assisting practitioners in maintaining their occupational radiation exposure as low as reasonably achievable during complex fluoroscopy-guided procedures
• Assisting Interventional Technologists in controlling radioactive contamination
• Responding to emergent situations such as spills of radioactive material
• Improving faculty and staff radiation safety practices through training and research

See our “Patient Care” page for more information about the Radiation Safety Division’s contribution to clinical care at Duke.