Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumours

Monday, March 9, 2009 - 10:08 in Health & Medicine

Freezing kidney tumours - 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 tumours that are 4 centimetres in size or smaller. And, this treatment - interventional cryoablation - is a viable option for people with larger tumours, according to two studies presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting...

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