Laser ablation is one of the best alternatives to invasive procedures like craniotomies (temporarily removing a piece of the skull to access the brain during surgery). Laser ablation is extremely ...

Kidney cancer happens when cells in the kidney begin to grow and divide out of control. It ranks in the top 10 types of cancer that affect both men and women in the United States, according to the ...

The absolute difference in cancer-specific survival for thermal ablation vs surgery for T1a RCC was just 1%. Cancer-specific survival among patients with stage T1a renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is ...

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Electrophysiology procedures take place in hospitals. That’s been the widely held assumption — until now. There’s plenty of reasons that people think EP procedures belong in hospitals. After all, in ...

Radiofrequency ablation is a minimally invasive procedure that doctors use for pain management and to shrink the size of cancerous tumors, nodules, and other growths. It is a procedure that uses ...

Chicago — Surgical resection is the standard of care for small colorectal liver metastases, but the results of a phase 3 trial reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2024 annual ...

Thermal ablation demonstrated noninferiority to surgical resection for small colorectal liver metastases, with comparable overall survival and local control outcomes. The COLLISION trial showed ...

The study covered in this summary was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Breast-conserving surgery is the standard option for early-stage breast cancer.