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What is Bead Block Indicated for?
How is Bead Block Manufactured?
What Size of Beads for Which Indication?
What Happens to Bead Block Following Embolisation?
Can Bead Block be Used for Chemoembolisation?
What is Bead Block Tinted With?
How Much Contrast Medium?
What Sizes of Bead Block are Available?
How Durable is Bead Block Compared to Other Embolic Microspheres?
What are the Guidelines for use of Bead Block in UFE?
Which Catheters is Bead Block Compatible With?
How Do I Administer Bead Block?
Is the DC Bead a device or a drug?
Can you load the beads with Cisplatin?
How long will the beads stay in the arteries?
Can I use liquid doxorubicin?
Why do you load doxorubicin when it is an obsolete drug?
Which studies are done or on-going with DC Beads?
Can I use Lipiodol?
Why don't you sell preloaded beads?
How long can I store the beads in a refrigerator?
What are the pharmacokinetics like? Can you prove this? What studies do you have?
Which dose should be used?
2ml injection water is too low. Doxorubicin producers suggest 10ml. What should I do?
What are possible complications?
How can I extract all the saline from DC Bead vials?
Why does DC Bead shrink and Hepasphere expand?
Can I combine RF Ablation and TACE therapies?
Where can I get Adriblastin, Adriamycin, Doxorubicin. (HL/RD)? Pfizer stopped selling it in Germany. Germany, and Benelux are the only countries where powder doxorubicin is not available.
Do you have papers proving results of TACE versus conventional treatment?
Total life dosage is 400-450mg/m2. Using 150mg per embolistion you reach the maximum life dose quickly! What do you do then?
Why can't I use fluorouracil?
What pre-medication do you recommend?
The studies you presented are representing small patient numbers - are they really representative?
How long are the loaded beads sterile?
When should I use 100-300µm / 500-700µm, and for what indications do you use 700-900µm?
If I use 100µm-300µm will I pass through parthologic AV shunts?
Adriblastin (doxorubicin) HL/RD is not indicated for HCC usage! Is this off label use?
What is the maximum amount of nodules you can treat in one session?
What do I do if I reach the end point and I don't want to give more than 50mg of drug?
150mg dose in one dose is too much. Will it be harmful to the patient?
Do You Recommend a Pain Management Protocol?
What Dose of Irinotecan Should I Use?
When Should I Repeat the Treatment?
What is Irinotecan?
How is the Irinotecan Loaded into DC Bead?
Do You Have any DC Bead Irinotecan Clincial Publications?
Do You Have any Pharmacokinetic Data?
Do You Have any Publications Proving the Survival Data on the DC Bead Irinotecan?
How Long do I Have to Wait for Loading
What Bead Size Should I Use?
Which Patients are Suitable for Treatment With DC Bead Irinotecan?
What is SN38
How Long Can I Store the Irinotecan-Loaded Beads in a Refrigerator?
What is the Appearance of the DC Bead Irinotecan During and Following Loading?

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