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This sure looks promising! Love and prayers, Joicy
New Technique Could Replace Surgery for Breast Cancer
[10/12/2000; Reuters Health]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A non-invasive procedure
that cooks cancer cells to death might one day replace surgery
as a first-line treatment for breast cancer, preliminary study
findings suggest. A trial is under way at the M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston, Texas, to evaluate the technique. Fifteen
women will undergo the procedure, known as magnetic resonance
guided focused ultrasound therapy. Then, doctors will remove
the tumor surgically and examine tissue under a microscope to
make sure all malignant cells have been killed. ``If we can show
that the technique works...it will save women from having surgery
for breast cancer,'' study leader Dr. Marc Fenstermacher told
Reuters Health. ``The biggest advantage is that it is totally
non-invasive--there are no incisions, probes or needles. ''However,
use of the procedure as a standard way to treat breast cancer
is still several years away, he added.
The full article can be found at:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001012/hl/cancer_42.html
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