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Ablation or excision? (Guest Editorial).(breast cancer treatment)
Publication: Internal Medicine News Publication Date: 15-FEB-02 Author: Morrow, Monica
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COPYRIGHT 2002 International Medical News Group
Growing interest in nonsurgical ablation of small breast cancers reflects a triumph of marketing over substance.
All of these nonsurgical ablation methods--cryotherapy, laser, radiofrequency ablation, high-frequency focused ultrasound--are clearly in their infancy as breast cancer therapies.
What's less clear is whether ablative therapies will ever offer any meaningful advantages over surgical excision. There are good animal data and limited clinical data showing that all of the ablative therapies can destroy breast cancer. There is no suggestion that these techniques improve survival or...
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