Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments Highlighted

The treatment of cancer has in many cases been a very risky and blunt force process. Whether it is full on surgery to remove or chemotherapy to kill, both can cause significant damage to the patient. Even with these methods, there are some forms and stages that are inoperable or unfeasible to even try to eradicate. Thankfully there have been leaps and bounds in minimally invasive surgery that allow for more specific attacks on the cancer with smaller amounts of damage to the surrounding tissue. Within this article a multitude of examples of these methods and particularly dicey situations are given.

Liver cancer is infamous among the medical community for having both tumors that go too deep into the tissue, coming in contact with vital veins and or arteries, as well as small tumors being found in a plethora leaving no practical open surgery method to remove them. There are however minimally invasive methods in which radio frequency ablation is used to pin point cancer cell destruction. The article also goes on to list multiple other types of cancer that the use of radio frequency ablations has also made a significant impact on.

So for me the real reason for my interest in these procedures is two fold. One the doctors that perform these procedures are interventional radiologists which is the current goal of my collegeic carrier. Two these procedures are fascinating in the level of pinpoint accuracy involved as well as the minimal damage caused by the treatment. It can only be imagined how much farther along all of these minimally invasive procedures will get technologically and the number of patients they will aid that being said it has given me and even greater fascination in this field and hopefully one day I will be able to carry out some of the treatments in the years to come.

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051128081619.htm