Bone Cancer

Cryoablation treatment helps diminish pain of bone cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, April 26th, 2005

Pain from cancer that has spread to the bone can be effectively diminished with a new treatment that freezes the cancerous areas, Mayo Clinic researchers reported at the 30th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology in New Orleans.

The treatment can provide a higher quality of life to patients whose activities are greatly limited because of the debilitating pain, said Matthew Callstrom, MD, PhD, a radiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester and the chief author of the abstract.

Approximately 100,000 people develop cancer that spreads to the bone (metastasis) in the United States each year. This cancer often causes severe pain...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2005-04-26)

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