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Article: Radio waves being tested on severe cancer pain
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 9, 2002
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Radio waves being tested on severe cancer pain
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Donna McKay was in a living hell.
Colon cancer had spread to her hip and pelvic bones, and fistfuls
of the strongest pain pills known to man weren't making a dent in her
suffering.
At work, "I couldn't make it more than two or three hours. The
pain would be so bad I'd have to go home," she said. "Sleep was
terrible. The pain medication wouldn't even hold me through the
night. Every hour, hour and a half, I was up. The pain was
controlling my whole life."
But after having a new, experimental treatment a month ago that
uses radio waves to kill tumors, the 63-year-old ...