No one likes to undergo a surgery. Apart from the dread of cuts and stitches, a large majority of us are scared of the post-operative sequelae of the surgery. Most of the times, patients take a lot of time to recover from the surgery, suffering more from the treatment than from the disease. Now add to the mix the increasing number of patients who have to deal with managing hypertension, diabetes and cancer, and you have many people who will postpone even those surgeries that are essential for their survival for as long as possible. This is precisely where interventional radiology comes to the rescue. Interventional radiology is a branch of radiology, specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide spectrum of conditions by performing minimally invasive therapeutic procedures. Interventional radiologists use X-ray, ultrasound, magnetic resonance and computed tomography to pass catheters with guide wires, usually only 1-2 millimetres in diameter, through blood vessels or other organ pathways to treat at the site of disease. These minimally invasive treatments allow major procedures to be performed though a pin-hole access rather than a big cut.