In Lviv, AI destroyed cancer metastases: patient went home the next day.

According to ТСН: In Lviv, at the St. Panteleimon Hospital, a 45-year-old woman managed to destroy three metastases in her liver thanks to the use of artificial intelligence. Already two hours after the surgery, the patient was able to walk around the ward, and the next day she returned home.

Oksana Moiseenko has been battling cancer since 2017, when she was diagnosed with a neuroendocrine liver tumor. Initial treatment methods did not yield the desired results: despite undergoing transarterial embolization, the tumor began to grow again and press on organs. This forced the patient to undergo a complex operation to remove a large part of her liver, and six months later, metastases appeared in the remaining tissues.

The medical institution highlighted that chemotherapy for neuroendocrine tumors is usually ineffective. Therefore, the real chance to stop the progression of the disease for Oksana was the use of radiofrequency ablation—a method that allows for precise destruction of tumor foci with heat from within.

New method of visualizing metastases

After the start of the full-scale war, Oksana moved from Nikopol to Ivano-Frankivsk and continued her treatment already in Lviv—at the St. Panteleimon Hospital. There, a modern navigation system was implemented, combining several technologies: overlaying MRI on CT in real-time, visualizing even those metastases that are not visible on ultrasound or CT, and selecting the optimal trajectory for electrode insertion. Most importantly, this includes assessing the completeness of ablation using artificial intelligence algorithms.

The doctors noted that this approach radically changes the possibilities of treatment. Previously, some nodes remained unnoticed or inaccessible, but thanks to the navigation system, medics can accurately 'see' them and completely destroy the tumor tissue.

“This is the only navigation system in Ukraine. We are actively implementing this technology because we see results. Even when traditional methods provide limited capabilities, modern navigation and artificial intelligence allow procedures to be performed as precisely and safely as possible,” said interventional oncologist Svyatoslav Balaka.

The doctors managed to destroy three metastases in Oksana's liver in this way.

“For me, ablation is the only chance to prolong life. I am amazed at how quickly everything went. Already two hours after the procedure, I was walking around the ward, able to eat and drink. The next morning, I went home. I really want to believe that I will only come back for check-ups and return to a life without fear,” said the patient.

The hospital noted that modern navigation systems and artificial intelligence do not replace doctors, but make their work more accurate, and treatments more effective and predictable.

Thus, new technologies in medicine open new horizons in the fight against cancer. The use of artificial intelligence and modern visualization methods is firmly established in treatment protocols, giving patients hope for quicker recovery and improving quality of life even in the most difficult cases.