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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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- "In 60 seconds, the tumour became an ice ball,"
the article said, adding "all cancer cells were killed."
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- "The operation took only 30 minutes. The patient
felt no pain and there was no bleeding," it said.
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- "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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