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Chinese Doctors Hail
Cancer Treatment
Breakthrough
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000212/05/health-china-cancer
2-12-2000

 
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese surgeons are declaring a breakthrough in cancer treatment after turning a patient's malignant tumour into a ball of ice, state media said on Saturday.
 
Doctors at Xijing Hospital in the northwestern city of Xian inserted a superconductive knife, two millimetres in diameter, into the tumour of liver cancer patient, Xinhua news agency said.
 
By forcing high-pressure argon and helium gas through the knife point, they were able to lower the temperature of the tumour to -140 degrees Celsius (-220 Fahrenheit).
 
"In 60 seconds, the tumour became an ice ball," the article said, adding "all cancer cells were killed."
 
"The operation took only 30 minutes. The patient felt no pain and there was no bleeding," it said.
 
"The therapy is a breakthrough in cancer treatment," it quoted Dou Kefeng, a surgeon in charge of the operation, as saying.


 
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