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VIDEO from Medialink and the Society of Interventional Radiology: Interventional Cryoablation Stops Cancer Cold

Monday, March 17, 2008 General News
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NEW YORK, March 17 Imagine finding out that you havekidney cancer and that you'll need 6 hours of surgery with up to 2 monthsrecovery to remove the tumor. And, then, shortly before your scheduledsurgery, you learn from a friend or the internet that you can be cured with a90 minute out-patient procedure. That's what happened to this man.
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See video from the Society of Interventional Radiology at:http://media.medialink.com/WebNR.aspx?story=34816

Alan Jacobs learned about a treatment performed by interventionalradiologists. Interventional cryoablation is a minimally invasive, outpatientprocedure that is relatively painless. Using imaging to pinpoint the tumor,an interventional radiologist guides a probe through the skin to the tumor andthen releases gas to freeze it. The freezing process kills the tumor.Patients leave the hospital with only a band-aid and return to normal activityalmost immediately.
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Interventional Radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimallyinvasive, targeted treatments that offer less risk, less pain and lessrecovery time compared to open surgery.

Until now, the only option for patients with kidney cancer was severalhours of surgery, a week in the hospital and 4 to 6 weeks of recovery.Patients not eligible for surgery or those with small tumors that have notspread beyond the kidney, now have another option. People who are too sickfor surgery, can't have general anesthesia, have borderline kidney function,only one kidney or multiple recurring tumors had no option till now.

Interventional cryoablation is approved by the FDA for kidney cancer andother soft tissue tumors. Even though it is a new treatment, it is offeredthroughout the United States

More than 32,000 Americans each year are diagnosed with kidney cancer. Itis the 8th most common cancer in men and the 10th in women. Typically thosewith kidney cancer are past the age of 40 and are twice as likely to be men.Other risk factors include smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, long-termdialysis and Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome.

To learn more about interventional cryoablation and kidney cancer:http://www.sirweb.org/news/newsPDF/2008am/Mon/Renal_cryoFinal.pdf

To find an interventional radiologist in your area:http://members.sirweb.org/eseries/scriptcontent/index_members_search.cfm?section=customer

Registered journalists can access video, audio, text, graphics and photosfor free and unrestricted use at http://www.mediaseed.tv.

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SOURCE Medialink and the Society of Interventional Radiology
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