Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumors
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 09:56
in Health & Medicine
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 with tumors that are 4 centimeters in size or smaller. And, this treatment -interventional cryoablation -is a viable option for people with larger tumors, according to two studies presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting.