Images will be evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively. Extrahepatic deposition of activity is a contra-indication for administration of the treatment dose. Region of interest analysis will be used to calculate lung shunting. Lung shunting should not exceed 20% of the dose 99mTc-MAA. If the amount of lung shunting cannot be reduced to <20% using standard radiological interventional techniques to decrease the shunting, the patient will

not be eligible to receive a safety nor a treatment dose of 166Ho-PLLA-MS. The dose point-kernel method will be applied to the (non-homogeneous) activity distribution INCB28060 to calculate the absorbed dose distribution [25]. Dose-volume histograms will be generated in order to quantify the dose distribution, and the

tumour to healthy tissue absorbed dose ratio will be calculated. 166Ho-PLLA-MS safety dose The second angiography takes place around 1 week after the first angiography but no longer than 2 weeks later. Patients will be hospitalized on the evening before the day of treatment. They will be discharged approximately 48 hours after the intervention unless complications have occurred. Prior to the procedure, the patient is offered a tranquilizer (oxazepam 10 mg). A safety dose of 166Ho-PLLA-MS will be administered through a catheter inside the hepatic artery, at the position planned during the first intervention. The safety dose will consist of 60 mg (10% of the total amount of microspheres) 166HoPLLA-MS with a lower specific activity (90 Bq/microsphere) than www.selleckchem.com/products/ly2874455.html oxyclozanide for the treatment dose. After the safety dose, planar imaging of both the thorax and abdomen will be performed, as well as SPECT and MRI of the abdomen. Presence of inadvertent administration to the lungs or other upper abdominal organs will once more be checked for. These SPECT and MRI images will be compared with the images post 99mTc-MAA and post-treatment, regarding extrahepatic deposition of activity, percentage lung shunting, homogeneity of the dose distribution and tumour to healthy tissue absorbed dose ratio. Treatment 166Ho-PLLA-MS treatment

dose When the amount of lung shunting does not exceed 20% of the safety dose of 166HoPLLA-MS, the (complete) treatment dose of 166HoPLLA-MS will be administered (Figure 2). Consecutive cohorts of 3 patients will be treated with identical amounts of microspheres (600 mg), and the last cohort will consist of at least 6 patients. If no toxicity ≥ grade 3 according to the Common GF120918 ic50 Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE)[26] is observed, the next cohort of three patients will be treated at the next radiation dose level. If in one patient CTCAE ≥ grade 3 is observed in a particular cohort, the cohort will be extended to six patients. If toxicity ≥ grade 3 is observed in two or more patients in a particular cohort, the study will be terminated because the endpoint, e.g. the maximum tolerated radiation dose, is reached.