Published in Law and Health Weekly, May 7th, 2005
"Lung cancers are among the most frequent and the most lethal tumors. They are mainly treated by surgery or by chemotherapy, but in the most advanced stages a local cryotherapy can be proposed as a palliative option for bronchial clearance," oncologists in France explained.
"This therapy, based on the cytotoxic effects of low temperatures, acts by mechanisms which are not yet totally understood," noted V. Forest and colleagues at the University of Saint-Etienne. They conducted a study "to investigate in vivo the biological...
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