Cancer
New Study Data Published in British Journal of Urology Demonstrates Cryoablation Effective for Kidney Cancer
Published in Cancer Weekly, November 6th, 2007
Endocare, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENDO), an innovative medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive technologies used by urologists and interventional radiologists for tissue and tumor ablation, announced that a new five-year retrospective study published in the October issue of the British Journal of Urology demonstrates that cryoablation is an effective treatment for patients with small kidney tumors.
A total of 78 patients who had 88 small tumors (mean tumor size was 2.6 cm in diameter) took part in the study led by Stephen Y. Nakada, M.D., of the Division of Urology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The cancerous lesions were ablated through...
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