For more than 20 years, embolotherapy has been used by interventional radiologists to treat aneurysms, tumors, and to control blood loss during surgery.

In recent years, interventional radiologists in the US, Europe and Japan have begun to expand the uses of embolotherapy. Increasingly embolotherapy and chemoembolotherapy are being used for the treatment of several different types of cancer tumors, including liver cancer.

Embolotherapy is increasingly used to treat pelvic congestive syndrome, both leading causes of chronic pelvic pain in women. The use of embolotherapy is being explored in a number of other new indications.