Immediately, two groups of scientists have succeeded in freezing tumors breast and prostate cancer in a small group of patients. Despite the fact that such patients is very small, this technology entails great prospects in oncology. This may be a new form Cancer treatment .
At the annual conference of the Community interventionist radiology, which took place in Tampa, Florida, the attention of the participants presented the results of two studies in which the authors have successfully applied cryotherapy for the treatment of cancer . Tumors were first frozen and then completely destroyed. And if in the case of male prostate cancer Frozen used after surgery in patients with the breast cancer Surgery was not necessary at all.
Cryotherapy in its various forms used in oncology before, but these studies are innovative in that the authors have used multiple probes to destroy tumors and MRI to control this procedure. Thus, through this technique were four patients suffering from relapse Prostate Cancer . All four of them before freezing were irradiated.
"We found a group of patients who have unsuccessfully tested all the existing methods of treatment," - said study author Dr. David Woodrow, a radiologist at the Mayo Clinic. He said that the two patients have gone through cryotherapy (use of very low temperatures to destroy the tumor) while the other two through thermal therapy (the use of high temperature). Both approaches have been successful.
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