Intervention radiology is a specialty where trained radiologists perform minimally invasive procedures in various organs of the body, using small devices such as needle, catheters, and wires. Their training in imaging techniques like ultrasound, CT, MRI, angiography, etc helps them to use these modalities to guide them to perform these procedures accurately and with high precision. In fact, they were the first ones to ever perform angiography on a patient’s heart. Intervention oncology (IO) is a type of cancer care performed by interventional radiologists.
With advancement in various equipment and techniques, it has established itself as an essential fourth pillar of Oncology care in the western world and is rapidly gaining popularity in India as well. Most of the interventional radiology procedures do not require any incision, general anesthesia, or overnight admission. Therefore they…
