Background: Techniques based on radio frequency (RF) energy have many applications in medicine, in particular tumour ablation. Today, mammography screening detects many breast cancers at an early stage, facilitating treatment by minimally invasive techniques such as radio frequency ablation (RFA). The breast cancer is mostly surrounded by fat, which during RFA-treatment could result in preferential heating of the tumour due to the substantial differences in electrical parameters. The object of this study was to investigate if this preferential heating existed during experimental in vitro protocols and during computer simulations.
These long-term clinical data show that TUMT treatment with ECP (electro-coagulation, prostate), gives a good success-rate, with reduction of symptoms. Furthermore there is a good chance of becoming catheter-free after TUMT.
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