{"id":1402,"date":"2026-05-20T11:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irz.ch\/treatments\/onkologie-v2\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T14:03:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:03:34","slug":"oncology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.irz.ch\/en\/treatments\/oncology\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Treatment \/ Interventional Oncology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interventional Oncology \u2014 Treat Locally, Spare Systemically<\/span><\/span><\/h1>
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A cancer diagnosis turns everything upside down. And yet: what is possible in tumor therapy today would have been unthinkable twenty years ago. Interventional oncology has emerged as the fourth pillar of modern cancer treatment \u2014 alongside surgery, systemic therapy, and radiation therapy.<\/p>\n

The principle is simple, but transformative: we go directly to the tumor. Instead of chemotherapy that burdens the entire body, we deliver drugs or heat or cold precisely to the tumor site \u2014 through a tiny access point, under imaging guidance, without major surgery.<\/p>\n

What that means: fewer systemic side effects, greater impact on the tumor, and the ability to perform treatments that wouldn’t be possible with other methods \u2014 such as when a tumor is too close to major blood vessels or when the patient cannot tolerate surgery.<\/p>\n

We never treat alone. Interventional oncology is, by definition, a team discipline \u2014 in every case, we collaborate with oncologists, surgeons, gastroenterologists, and radiation therapists through the interdisciplinary tumor board.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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