Tag: thermal ablation
First UK NHS hospital to use AI-enhanced treatment overcomes “Achilles’ heel”...
In the final months of 2023, the Addenbrooke Hospital in Cambridge, UK, were reported as the first UK National Health Service (NHS) facility to...
Thyroid thermal ablation “comes of age” internationally
The Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) 2023 annual meeting (9–13 September, Copenhagen, Denmark) saw presenters explore where thyroid thermal ablation treatments...
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...
An insight into treating liver tumours with thermal ablation
Amanda Smolock (Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA) discusses how her practice operates, using microwave ablation nearly exclusively for primary and metastatic liver tumours...
ECR 2022: Interventional oncology is the fourth pillar of oncology—a shift...
With cancer cases growing worldwide and an increased number of late-stage diseases in elderly patients, there is an increasing need for an integrated approach....
Ablation-confirmation software must become the new normal for IRs to be...
“If interventional radiologists wish to become competitive with surgeons, the availability of software enabling the accurate comparison of pre- and post-interventional CT or...
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...
