Shutting out soft tissue cancers in the cold
Friday, March 19, 2010 - 00:28
in Health & Medicine
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 are often not candidates for surgery and would benefit from minimally invasive treatment, say researchers.
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