News tagged with cryoablation
The hot -- and cold -- interventional radiology treatments for recurrent prostate cancer
The first known patient cases using magnetic resonance-guided heat (laser interstitial thermal therapy) or cold (cryoablation) to treat prostate cancer recurrence after surgical removal of the prostate gland were presented ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumors
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 ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Researcher identifies nearly 100 studies supporting use of thermal ablation to treat lung cancer
The journal Radiology will publish in its September issue an article written by Damian E. Dupuy, M.D., director of tumor ablation at Rhode Island Hospital, supporting the use of ablation procedures for the treatment of lun ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Cancer 'freezing' technique lessens pain, cuts hospital stay
(Medical Xpress) -- When considering treatment options for kidney tumors, preserving any kidney function is preferable to removing the entire organ: Cardiovascular health improves, hypertension is less frequent and re-hospitalization ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Cryoablation used to successfully treat atrial fibrillation at the Montreal Heart Institute
The electrophysiology team at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) used cryoablation (ablation using cold) to treat a patient suffering from atrial fibrillation, the most common form of cardiac arrhythmia, and one associated ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
May 11, 2011 |
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Interventional Radiology Y-90 Liver Cancer-busting Treatment: Safe, Fast, Extends Life
Interventional radiologists have been the leaders in the use of intra-arterial yttrium-90 radioembolization, since its introduction in 2000, to treat liver cancer. Now, new results from a large multi-institutional study show ...
Mar 28, 2011 |
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Putting the freeze on atrial fibrillation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Eugene Tsuji was biking on a trail in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Aptos, Calif., when his heart monitor went bananas.
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Novel interventional radiology treatment with microspheres shows promise for liver cancer patients
An interventional radiology treatment—the use of intra-arterial yttrium-90 microspheres for liver cancer (also known as hepatocellular carcinoma)—shows promise in prolonging life for many patients with this devastating condition, ...
Mar 17, 2010 |
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Shutting out soft tissue cancers in the cold
Cryotherapy, an interventional radiology treatment to freeze cancer tumors, may become the treatment of the future for cancer that has metastasized in soft tissues (such as ovarian cancer) and in bone tumors. Such patients ...
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Tissue-freezing balloon beats drugs in ablation study
An experimental ablation therapy system that freezes heart tissue with a balloon catheter to treat a common heart rhythm disorder is far more effective than drug therapy, a study found Monday.
Mar 15, 2010 |
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Freezing breast tumors helps stop cancer's spread in mice
Freezing a cancer kills it in its place, and also appears to generate an immune response that helps stop the cancer's spread, leading to improved survival rates over surgery, according to a new study in mice from researchers ...
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Doctors tout NanoKnife for easy tumor removal
A University of Miami doctor recently removed two cancerous tumors from a patient's liver using only three needle-like probes, a computer and a powerful burst of electricity.
Feb 05, 2010 |
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