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New tech challenges cancer
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Zhou Jianchuan
A LIVER-CANCER patient with five tumours was treated in Shenzhen Red Cross Hospital just after the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day, using a new technique which can destroy several tumours at once.
Lasting about 45 minutes on Friday morning, the operation was witnessed by the reporter.
Liu Jiliang, director of the Tumour Department, led the operation.
The new therapy, called Radio Frequency Ablation (RFA), initially developed in the United States, was introduced to China only a short time ago. In the operation, the doctors insert a needle into the patient's body, directly onto the tumour. Doctors say the needle, guided by a computer, hookd projectile electrode arrays in the tumour tissue, then uses radio waves to burn the tumour cells to death.
The operation was performed with local anesthesia. The patient said the operation was painless.
The 51-year-old male patient has fought prostate cancer and liver cancer since early 1998, using chemotherapy and interventional therapy, which rather than curing him only caused him severe liver damage, forcing him to abandon chemotherapy, according to the doctors.
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