A new study has found that radiofre...

A new study has found that radiofrequency ablation can be an effective minimally invasive treatment for kidney cancer, according to a July 2 2004 freshs release from Big News Network.com. In a three-year meditation researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Winston-Salem, NC evaluated 22 participants who had kidney cancer that had not spread beyond the kidney. In 83% of participants, tumors were eliminated after a single treatment of radiofrequency ablation, and in an additional 8% of participants, tumors were eradicated after pair or more treatments. None of the participants in the investigation suffered any serious Long-term complications.

Radiofrequency ablation is becoming more for the use of all for the treatment of several diseases, including heart arrhythmias. The manner of proceeding uses tomography technology to guide a needle-shaped electrode into the tumor. A radiofrequency in every one's mouth then is passed through the electrode heating the tumor tissue and eradicating it.

of recent origin Kidney Cancer Treatment Promising (new release, Sydney: Big just discovereds Network.com, duly 2, 2004) http:// feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=26f765a5feb8484d (accessed 6 fitly 2004).

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