Tag: cryoablation
Are scopes within the scope of IR for biliary interventions?
In 2023, the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation awarded the percutaneous cholangiopancreatoscopy (PCPS) registry the largest grant to date to investigate the use...
New data find cryoablation “highly effective” in treatment of solitary renal...
A single-centre, retrospective review has reported 13-year data confirming cryoablation as a “highly effective” treatment modality for solitary T1a renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with...
New data presented by recognised speakers during SIR Best of abstracts...
This year’s Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) annual scientific meeting (23–28 March, Salt Lake City, USA) gave recognition to select abstracts during the closing...
Cryoablation highly effective for breast cancer patients with large tumours
Cryoablation—minimally-invasive technique that uses ice to freeze and destroy small, cancerous tumours—has now been proven effective for breast cancer patients with large tumours, providing...
Interventional News’ top 10 most popular stories of October 2023
Interventional News’ most read stories in October included significant data releases from TCT 2023 (23–26 October, San Francisco, USA); results from a study investigating sex...
Cryoablation found to “significantly reduce pain” in endometriosis patients with abdominal...
Published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, a recent retrospective study which evaluated pain relief after percutaneous image-guided cryoablation in patients with...
Boston Scientific receives 510(k) clearance for expanded cryoablation system
Boston Scientific has received 510(k) clearance for expanded indication of the Visual Ice cryoablation system. The clearance grants this device an indication expansion to...
Health Canada approves IceCure Medical’s ProSense cryoablation system
IceCure Medical has announced in a press release that Health Canada, the Canadian government's regulatory agency, has approved IceCure's ProSense system, disposable cryoprobes, and...
IceCure Medical is first to offer cryoablation to treat breast cancer...
IceCure Medical has announced that ProSense was recently installed and inaugurated at Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH) in Coimbatore, India. This development, to...
Varian introduces Isolis cryoprobe to simplify planning and guidance during cryoablation...
Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, is introducing the Isolis cryoprobe, a single-use, disposable device designed for use with CryoCare systems that seeks to...
New data presented on IceCure cryoablation system for tumour treatment
IceCure, developer of the minimally-invasive cryoablation ProSense System which has shown promise in the treatment of renal masses, has announced that it has been...
IceCure Medical receives regulatory approval in China for commercial use of...
IceCure Medical, developer of minimally invasive cryoablation technology, the ProSense System (marketed under the brand name IceSense3 in China), that destroys tumours by freezing as...
US Patent Office Grants Notice of Allowance to IceCure for its...
IceCure Medical has shared in a press release that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office for...
For some small kidney cancers, freezing is more effective than heat...
For patients with early-stage renal cell carcinomas (RCCs) that measure between 3 and 4cm, cryoablation yields a lower risk of cancer-related death compared to...
Cryoablation could freeze out lumpectomy in early-stage, low-risk breast tumours
A pilot study, published in the Journal of Cancer Therapy, reveals that percutaneous cryoablation of early-stage, low-risk breast cancer tumours smaller than 15mm presents a...
Percutaneous microwave and cryoablation suitable for sarcoma lung metastases treatment
Percutaneous microwave and cryoablation allow for repeat minimally invasive treatment of sarcoma lung metastases with mild complications, according to the conclusions of a study...
Phase 1 clinical trial of pembrolizumab immunotherapy plus cryoablation for inoperable...
A phase 1 clinical trial for the treatment of patients with inoperable mesothelioma, with both pembrolizumab immunotherapy and cryoablation, has begun in New Jersey...
ECLIPSE shows cryoablation effective for local control of pulmonary long-term metastatic...
Cryoablation is effective for local tumour control in patients with pulmonary metastatic disease. Within the ECLIPSE study, cryoablation had no significant impact on the...
IceCure Medical announces updated regulatory strategy in China for the IceSense3...
IceCure submitted an amendment to the registration certificate granted for the IceSense3 system by China's national medical products administration (NMPA), which will allow IceCure...
Ablation 2.0: Improved precision as interventionalists approach A0
Ablation is entering a new era of increased precision and quantification, the interventional radiology (IR) community argues, with outcomes that match or surpass those...
Gallbladder cryoablation “promising” minimally invasive cholecystitis treatment in high-risk patients
A first-in-human trial finds that gallbladder cryoablation to be a promising alternative to long-term cholecystostomy tube drainage for the treatment of cholecystitis in non-operative...
Adding cryoablation to sorafenib improves the efficacy of renal cell carcinoma...
Cryoablation increases the clinical efficacy of treatment with the oral multi-target antitumour drug sorafenib for advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a new study published...
Cryoablation shows promise in treating low-risk breast cancers
Cryoablation shows early indications of effectiveness in treating women with low-risk breast cancers, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological...
ICEfx cryoablation system launches globally at CIRSE 2018
BTG has announced the global launch of its ICEfx cryoablation system. This is an evolution of the existing Visual ICE system, and according to...
Cryovagotomy may help ignite weight loss
Cryoablation of the posterior vagal trunk, the nerve carrying hunger signals to the brain, may help patients with mild-to-moderate obesity lose weight, according to...
Future directions for ablation in interventional oncology
The notion of locally destroying a cancer percutaneously with minimal morbidity and mortality has become accepted as part of the modern armamentarium for treating...
Initial experience suggests cryoablation effective in treatment of benign soft tissue...
“There is little experience with the use of cryoablation in children. Our aim was to evaluate the feasibility of cryoablation for benign soft tissue...
New study uses cryoablation to target vagus nerve and obesity
A new study is underway at Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, USA, to evaluate the use of cryoablation to treat mild to moderate obesity.
The clinical trial,...
Cryoablation allows safe and effective local control of breast cancer
“Cryoablation of metastatic breast cancer is a safe and effective method that allows local control of the disease,” Claudio Pusceddu told delegates at the...
SOLSTICE preliminary data show cryoablation has “acceptable safety profile” in treatment...
The SOLSTICE clinical study constitutes the largest multicentre, prospective study focused on the clinical use and effectiveness of cryotherapies for patients with primary cancer...
