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First Non-Invasive Technology for Breast Tumor Ablation Announced

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 2nd, 2000

Researchers at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, are testing a non-invasive tumor ablation method that may one day replace surgery to remove some cancers.

Led by Marc Fenstermacher, MD, a diagnostic radiologist, and John Hazle, PhD, a physicist, both in M.D. Anderson's Department of Diagnostic Radiology, the Phase II clinical trial is open to 15 breast cancer surgical patients with tumors no larger than two centimeters. The study is sponsored by the treatment's developer, TxSonics Inc., of Dallas, Texas.

M.D. Anderson was the first U.S. site to use the procedure for the care of cancer patients. The therapy, known as Magnetic Resonance...

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