Freezing Bone Cancer Tumors Reduces Pain

Cryoablation, a procedure most commonly associated with destroying kidney and prostate tumors by freezing them, has been shown to offer durable pain relief of cancer that has spread to bone. The procedure freezes and shrinks or destroys cancerous tumors in or near bone. “Cancer patients are living longer and we need to be able to manage their pain over a long period of time,” says Matthew Callstrom, M.D., Ph.D. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Pain / Anesthetics on December 2nd, 2007