Cryoablation Provides Hope for Mesothelioma Sufferers
Posted on March 4th, 2009 in Asbestos News, Mesothelioma News |
Cryoablation is a progressive treatment choice for patients with cancer that utilizes cold energy to target a tumor and destroy it. It entails the freezing and reheating of a cancer cell in order to treat and manage mesothelioma along with many other types of cancers.
Jan Egorton of County Durham, England is suffering from mesothelioma which she contracted through her exposure from asbestos because of her father who used to work around the toxic mineral. She found out about the treatment through research and flew to UCLA Medical Center with her husband and underwent Cryoablation which costs around $7,000 for one procedure.
She has affirmed that the treatment made her day to day living easier and she is pretty much positive that if all her tumors were destroyed it will then take five years for them to grow again therefore giving her more years to survive the cancer.
More research must be done to check the efficiency of the method while it is currently used to destroy cancer cells found in the lungs, kidney, bones and breasts.
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My mom was diagnosed almost a year ago with mesothelioma. She has undergone a total of seven rounds of chemo (cisplatin, alitma, and recently added avastin), pleurectomy and decortication surgery, and radiation therapy. She will be having the cryoablation procedure done at UCLA with Dr. Suh this June. We are looking forward to this procedure and its positive effects on her body and health. Please let us know any expectations we should have about recovery time and possible side effects you had to deal with.
Thank you!
I have just found this site, otherwise I would have asked earlier, how did your mam get on.
I suffered no side effects and had cryo twice.
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