Other options include chemotherapy, which has limited effectiveness, and cryosurgery, which entails freezing tumors. Cryosurgery involves freezing tumor cells to reduce tumor size, he explains. Patients can even have this treatment while they are also receiving chemotherapy. It's a minimally invasive way of dealing with tumors. The liver is a frequent site to which cancer spreads, particularly from the colon.
Cancer is most dangerous when it goes to other areas in the body.
We would like to see them earlier, after chemotherapy, rather than waiting until they get into late stages of disease. He is amazed at how well patients have done to date. What's 'Melt' continued from page 1 striking is that every patient we've treated wakes up and asks if they can go home. It is extraordinary how patients are tolerating this treatment. Some patients can be treated with the new technique under conscious sedation.