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Treatment For Cancer May No Longer Be As Grim As The Disease

ent damages nerves near the liver's surface, patients may feel chest or abdominal pain for up to a week.

The California team have so far tested their treatment on a dozen patients. Nine of the twelve have been free of cancer for more than a year. Left untreated, liver cancer is invariably fatal. Schneider expects that several more years of evaluation will be needed before the procedure becomes common. McGahan says radio-frequency ablation could treat benign tumours as well as cancer. For example, he recently removed a painful bone tumour from a girl's leg by inserting the wire through a small hole in her femur.

Param Sharma, an electrophysiologist at the University of Arizona, says radio-frequency ablation is already widely used to treat certain heart arrhythmias by destroying wayward pacemaker cells. He says there is no reason it couldn't be used for other tissue-killing procedures as well. "You can make a lesion any-where."

Author: Jonathan Knight, San Francisco
New Scientist issue 10th October 1998

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