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Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumors
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Freezing kidney tumors—using a safe minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment that kills the cancer 100 percent effectively without surgery—should be the gold standard or first treatment option for all individuals ...
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Cryoablation continues to show good results for kidney cancer patients
Nov 25, 2007 |
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A review of 62 Mayo Clinic patients who underwent cryoablation to treat cancerous kidney tumors shows that the patients are cancer free for up to two and a half years after having had the procedure.
Freezing bone cancer tumors reduces pain, study shows
Nov 28, 2007 |
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Cryoablation, a procedure most commonly associated with destroying kidney and prostate tumors by freezing them, has been shown to offer durable pain relief of cancer that has spread to bone. The procedure freezes and shrinks ...
UT Southwestern digestive specialists freeze out esophagus cancer with new therapy
Jul 29, 2008 |
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UT Southwestern Medical Center gastroenterologists are using a new method to freeze damaged cells in the esophagus, preventing them from turning cancerous.
Sequential TACE and cryosurgery can improve survival times for patients with HCC?
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)--a liver cancer--is recognized as one of the most common cancers in the world that disproportionately affects Southeast Asians and Africans. While there are therapies that possibly provide a ...
Metastatic bone disease patients can walk in Lazarus' footsteps
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Osteoplasty—a highly effective minimally invasive procedure to treat the painful effects of metastatic bone disease by injecting bone cement to support weakened bones—provides immediate and substantial pain relief, often ...
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