A cancer treatment called selective internal radiation therapy or SIRT, which has successfully treated as many as 100 people in Victoria, has been identified as a "global lifesaver".

Almost all these patients suffered from cancer, which could not be operated. All these patients were treated in the experimental study of the drug sorafenib, given in combination with the respective chemotherapy of the cancer.

The researchers inserted small radioactive beads, as thin as human hair, in the arteries in the groins of the patients. These beads reach the liver of the patients and radiate a dose of the drug. This is the tumors are reduced.

A woman who was suffering liver cancer was treated with the SIRT. Associate Prof. Peter Gibbs told that she is fine now and her cancer tumors have gone off.

"Her tumors slowly disappeared and she remains tumor free. I am convinced that she is cured", he said.

Prof. Gibbs was the lead author of the study. He shared that the tumors were successfully removed in nearly 15% of the patients.