New Breast Cancer Treatment?
This new treatment was talked about and featured on our local TV station. Channel Five Seattle, King TV. "A new study finds it may be possible to fight breast cancer by freezing tumors. Michigan researchers tested the treatment called cryotherapy on a dozen patients who did not want to have surgery. The procedure killed the cancerous tumor and patients did not have any local recurrences of breast cancer for up to five years. Scientists suggest this could be a new way to treat the disease, but say more studies are needed." Is this new hope?
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Cryotherapy --> or cryosurgery is not very new compare to targeted therapy. It uses extreme cold produced by liquid nitrogen (or argon gas) to destroy abnormal tissue. In application, doctor may consider using this treatment for operable, low grade and/or early stage tumor. I never heard doctor use this technique to treat inoperable or advance stage cancer. Cryosurgery is considered effective for prostate and liver tumors, retinoblastoma or early stage skin/bone cancer. About treating breast cancer with this technique, I don't know. Hope this may help you.
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Not sure why they are calling this a new type of treatment . . its been around for quite some time as well as gamma knife and cyber knife . . sometimes cryotherapy is used during surgery. I would suspect that like any type of treatment using this approach would depend on the stage of disease, the shape and size of tumor, the location of tumor or tumors. I've known quite a few patients who have used cyberknife successfully for liver and brain mets. We did ask about using it for our sons cancer but he was not a candidate because of the shape and size of the tumors. His doctor explained that techniques like cyberknife and cryotherapy work best on smaller sized and evenly shaped tumors and not so well on misshappen or large sized tumors. I did read the report about this and it was just focused on breast tumors and was considered investigational with more study needed. Seems promising however for those patients with early stage disease (small or just a few tumors). National Cancer Institute: Cryosurgery in cancer treatment http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/cryosurgery
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Title : New Breast Cancer Treatment
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