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Cryosurgery – Freeze Therapy For Lung Cance

Dr. Omar Maiwand and his team from Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust have found Cryosurgery effective in removing tumor// in lung cancer patients. The Harefield team has so far operated 16 patients using this freezing technology. Cryosurgery is undergone in patients where conventional surgical removal of tumor mass is not possible. It is estimated that about 20% of patients removing...

Embryo Freezing

Women who would like to have late children but fear loss in fertility can have their embryo freeze during their early age and can use it when they want their children.// The new technology will help women in their active fertility to store their embryo without fear of loosing motherhood. The embryo freezing technique will be very useful for cancer patients who are planning to have chemoth...

New Technique Destroys Kidney Tumors By Freezing Them

A new study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN has found that a non-invasive technique called percutaneous cryoablation //can be of significance in killing kidney tumors by freezing them. This method is especially useful in patients who are not considered good candidates for surgery. For the study, researchers treated 59 kidney tumors in 58 patients using percutaneous...

Freeze-dried fruits: Berry Berry Good!

Don't get misled by the looks of freeze-dried fruits. Though they appear to be small, studies have shown that the antioxidant phytochemicals //that is present in fresh state is just the same after freeze-drying. Also the benefits of these dried fruits are assimilated easily into the blood stream. The key researcher into this project, Gary Stoner, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of Environ...

Quick freezing technique of the human egg

Prague - Fertility specialists in Japan have conceived a new way of freezing human eggs which will be a blessing to many women, for instance the cancer patients //, to be able to have children. Women’s eggs are very delicate and can get easily damaged when they are thawed, in contrast to sperms which can be easily frozen and thawed. A quick freezing method has been devise...

Women delaying motherhood 'should freeze eggs'

According to a fertility specialist, women in their early 30s, who want to have children later, should be given a choice of freezing their eggs.// As several women seem to have kids later, this step is required, says Dr Gillian Lockwood, of the British Fertility Society.“This can be because they have focused on a career, financial stability - or have only just found "Mr Right",” she...

Freezing Kidney Tumors Effective and Less Expensive Than Laparoscopy

Researchers have found that the nonsurgical image-guided treatment of kidney tumors – cryoablation – is as effective as the laparoscopic// technique in viable candidates. The research was presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting. The comparative trial shows that percutaneous cryoablation results in a slightly lower recurrence rate of the t...

When CIAs Poisoned Capsule for Castro Stuck to the Freezer!

That the notorious US Central Intelligence Agency mounted innumerable attempts to kill its bete noire, Cubas Fidel Castro, is well known . Forget the politics of it all, the CIA has indeed been resourceful, even if they came to grief every time. Castro has already turned 80. Still the recently declassified documents of the agency do make fascinating reading. And now Cuban intelligen...

Dinner Guest Recover Bodies in Freezer

A dinner party came to an abrupt end when a guest discovered bodies in the freezer. The bodies belonged to the host Didier Charrons wife Chantal, 46, and son Bryan 11. The female guest opened the freezer while helping to clear up after a dinner with a group of friends Tuesday at the man's home in the city of Verviers, 78 miles east of Brussels, and discovered the bodies....