Interventional Therapy

Niu Huimin

牛惠敏

Professor · Chief Physician

Chief Expert, Y-90 Internal Radiation Center for Liver Tumours

Vascular and non-vascular interventional oncology, with more than 35,000 procedures — including China's first Y-90 liver cancer treatment and the country's first uterine fibroid embolisation programme.

Professional Profile

Professor Niu has worked in the clinic, laboratory and classroom of interventional medicine for nearly forty years and has performed more than 35,000 interventional procedures. He treats tumours throughout the body — liver, lung, kidney, pancreas, breast, colorectal, prostate, esophageal, nasopharyngeal, uterine, gastric cardia and head and neck cancer — using both vascular and non-vascular techniques.

His non-vascular repertoire includes radiofrequency, microwave and argon-helium cryoablation, radioactive seed implantation, vertebroplasty and luminal stenting; his vascular work covers ischaemic and haemorrhagic disease at any site and interventional treatment of nervous system tumours. He performed China’s first Y-90 treatment for liver cancer, introduced uterine fibroid embolisation to the country and has run twenty-five national training courses on gynaecological intervention. He has received twenty-eight science and technology awards.

Areas of Expertise

  • Y-90 radioembolisation
  • Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE)
  • Radiofrequency and microwave ablation
  • Cryoablation (argon-helium knife)
  • Iodine-125 seed implantation
  • Vertebroplasty and luminal stenting
  • Uterine fibroid embolisation

Academic & Professional Appointments

  • Performed China's first Y-90 treatment for liver cancer
  • Member, Liver Metastasis Conversion Therapy Committee, China Anti-Cancer Association
  • Member, Research Expert Committee, Interventional Committee, China Anti-Cancer Association
  • Chairman, Tumour Internal Radiation Therapy Committee, China Medical Education Association
  • Standing Council Member, Interventional Committee, China Information Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Vice Chair, Hemorrhage Intervention Committee, China Information Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Standing Member, Interventional Committee, China Non-Public Medical Association
  • Vice Chair, Tumour Targeted Therapy Branch, Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering
  • Chief Expert, Y-90 Internal Radiation Center for Liver Malignancy, Boao
  • Chairman, Interventional Committee, Hainan Non-Public Medical Association

A second opinion, without the travel

Our international team can review your records remotely before you decide to travel, and coordinate visas, transfers and accommodation if treatment in Guangzhou is recommended.

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