• Highly effective at stopping and preventing bleeding
• it decreases menstrual bleeding, as well as pressure urinary frequency and constipation
• It reduces bleeding from a large tumor during surgery
• Bleeding from traumatic injury
• Gastrointestinal bleeding, such as ulcer or diverticular disease
• Minimal invasive procedure, which means less burden on your body and less time in hospital! Patient normally stay overnight.
• Treats areas that that are difficult for surgeons to reach safely
• Make certain surgery, ablation, chemotherapy and radiation therapy more effective and safer
• Less damage to the body – one small cut for inserting a catheter tube
• It improves quality of life by reducing symptoms caused by a tumor that cannot be removed by surgery. For example, relieving pain or controlling the symptoms of advanced kidney cancer, as a palliative treatment
• Cutting off blood supply to a tumor to make it shrink, slow growth, or die

Example of cancers; liver cancer, kidney cancer, neuroendocrine tumor

• Correcting abnormal connection between veins and arteries

These connections prevent blood from fully circulating and delivering oxygen where it is needed

• Treating aneurysms, uterine fibroids

Decreasing the size of tangled non-straight veins to reduce pain and swelling