Society of Interventional Radiology
Freezing Out Breast Cancer
Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, April 4th, 2010
Interventional radiologists have opened the door to an encouraging potential future treatment for the nearly 200,000 women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States each year: image-guided, multiprobe cryotherapy. In the first reported study, researchers were able to successfully freeze breast cancer in patients who refused surgery; the women did not have to undergo surgery after treatment to ensure that tumors had been killed, note researchers at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 35th Annual Scientific Meeting in Tampa, Fla.
"Minimally invasive cryotherapy opens the door for a potential new treatment for breast cancer and needs to be further...
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