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Article: Electrolysis May Offer Advantages Over Surgery.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- December 11, 2001
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2001 DEC 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In June 2000, the Adelaidean reported on promising trials of a new technique to treat patients suffering from cancers of the liver. The researchers recently presented the preliminary results of those trials to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (SA).
The surgical team, led by Professor Guy Maddern from Adelaide University's department of surgery, developed the technique of inserting electrodes into the tumors and surrounding liver tissue, and then passing small electric currents through them.
This process, termed electrolysis, destroys tumor and liver tissue in much the ...