Showing posts with label surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surgery. Show all posts

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Operation Without Surgery and Without Pain

Operation Without Surgery and Pain | A nice news for an older man and his/her condition is weak and impossible to surgical. Now we have an operation technique that no need to surgical, but just with hole as needle size, this operation in named by cryosurgery aka krio operation.

Cryosurgery is a new technique for cancer therapy that approved by the Food and Drug Administration USA (FDA) China SFDA in 1998 and in 1999.

One of the executors of therapy, Fuda Cancer Hospital Guangzhou, China, using this technique since 2000. There are at least 5,000 cases of 34 types of cancer that have been handled Fuda Hospital. The experts at the hospital were also frequent train physicians from around the world about this technique.

So far, such as the International Society of Cryosurgery mentioned Chairman (International Society of Cryosurgery) Dr Franco Lugnani, Fuda Hospital has the most experience doing this minimally invasive surgery, as well as superior in terms of research and experience.

According to Prof. Xu Kecheng in the book Modern Cryosurgery for Cancer, Krio lethal tumor surgery through repeated freezing and thawing process. Damaging effects of Krio operation occurs through two mechanisms, direct and slower.

Direct effect is the formation of ice crystals that cause cancer cells become dehydrated and broken. Effects of a slower, freezing causes the small blood vessels that tumors defective tumor and died of oxygen deprivation.

"This action also triggers the bodys immune system. As a result, the remaining tumor cells are not damaged by the operation of Krio be eradicated by the immune system. This is called krioimunologi response, "said Xu who is also President of the RS Fuda. In addition, cancer cells become more sensitive to chemotherapy and radiotherapy that further therapy is more effective.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Alternative Radiation Cream Treat Skin Cancer Without Surgery

Health for human | Although quite effective, surgical removal of skin cancer is often not preferred because it leaves a scar. Now there are alternatives to cure it, namely the efficacy of radiation with the cream has been clinically tested in Italy.

The test cream containing radioactive substances rhenium-188 was conducted in several hospitals in Italy, involving 700 patients with skin cancer. Quoted from Dailymail, Friday (01/06/2012), its effectiveness to kill cancer observed in these trials is quite high at 95 percent.

In addition to not leave scars, skin cancer treatment with radiation cream also has another advantage. For example, can reach cancer cells particularly difficult locations may not face such an operation on the surface of the eye or ear.

Another plus is very easy to use. Cream is packaged in a plaster lives taped, and then within 2 hours of exposure to radiation will work to kill cancer cells specifically claimed that side effects are very minimal.

Types of skin cancer can be cured by this cream is basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, which has a medium level of malignancy. As for malignant melanoma, experts do not recommend the use of these creams and more recommend surgery.

However, this breakthrough gives great hope for patients with skin cancer which is very much. For this type of carcinoma cancer alone, either basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell can infect every year 100,000 patients throughout New England.

Unfortunately due to experiments performed is still very limited, this cream has not received marketing authorization and still have to undergo some refinement. But it is expected, within two years of this cream will be available in the European market and beyond.