Percutaneous ablation for localized renal tumors is an appropriate treatment option for patients unable to undergo surgery, according to investigators. A team at Mayo Clinic in Rochester ...

Some patients with early-stage kidney cancer who have smaller tumors (<4 cm) may be able to forgo surgery and be treated with percutaneous ablation, according to new findings from a large ...

One of a range of non-resectional ablative procedures such as cryoablation and radiofrequency ablation (RFA) may be selected for some smaller tumours. Percutaneous RFA for renal cancer is carried out ...

And if you need to take any time off work. You have kidney cancer ablation through a small cut in your skin over the kidney. This is called percutaneous ablation. You might have this treatment under a ...

Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of the renal sympathetic nerves is a novel approach to the treatment of resistant hypertension, and animal studies of this technique have yielded promising ...

according to a new study by researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. For the study, researchers treated 59 kidney tumors in 58 patients using percutaneous (through the skin) cryoablation.

Percutaneous cryoablation for cT1b renal tumors is associated with a higher rate of local disease recurrence compared with partial nephrectomy, new data suggest. Percutaneous cryoablation (PCA ...

Percutaneous cryoablation (PCA) is increasingly recognized as a feasible minimally invasive, nephron-sparing treatment for renal cell carcinomas, with comparable efficacy to nephrectomy. The ...

A new study by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found using percutaneous ... Thermal ablation was pioneered for liver, lung and kidney cancer, but it is currently ...