Kidney Tumor Freezing Treatment. New studies suggest that freezing tumors and in other cases heating them could mean quicker and less invasive treatment for some cancer patients. Kidney cancer patients are being offered new hope of a cure with a treatment that kills tumours by freezing them.
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Peter phelps from trowbridge is about to have an operation that he hopes will save his life. During cryoablation a thin wandlike needle cryoprobe is inserted through your skin and directly into the cancerous tumor. Cryoablation is a procedure that ablates or destroys small kidney tumors using thermal energy to freeze them.
For external tumors liquid nitrogen is applied directly to the cancer cells with a cotton swab or spraying device.
This new procedure is called percutaneous cryoablation pca with pcs argon gas is circulated through needles freezing a small volume of the tissue. The nonsurgical treatment of kidney tumors cryoablation is as effective as the surgical laparoscopic technique in viable candidates. This kills the tumor turning it into scar tissue. Cryosurgery also called cryotherapy is the use of extreme cold produced by liquid nitrogen or argon gas to destroy abnormal tissue.
