[From image-guided biopsies to locoregional tumour treatments]

Infiltrating many traditional discipline, interventional radiology achieved a dynamic progress during the last 50 years. Collaboration with the modern, personalised, quality-sensitive oncology opened a new horizon for oncologic interventions in the early 1980s. This complex field needs multiple skills and a broadened view from the interventional radiologist. The aim of this paper is to summarize the "menu" of present and prospective therapeutic tools in oncointerventional radiology.