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In the News: Cancer Treatment Kills Tumors by 'Cooking'
Tonight as I was making dinner (yes people I cook some days), I glanced at the tv when I heard the words "brain tumor." Those words hit close to home -- my sister lost her battle with cancer to one of those in 1997.
World News Tonight was reporting on a not-so-new technique now being tested on brain tumor patients. The procedure involves inserting a fiber-optic laser probe through the brain to administer a laser beam inside the tumor that destroys the cancer cells. The patients on whom this has been tested have all shown significant results with no complications. This is incredibly good news! And although a decade late in my sister's case, it brought a smile to my face. Anything that looks promising in the battle against cancer has to bring a smile to one's face, no?
But it's not the first time I hear of this type of treatment to combat tumors. In 2002, two years before his spinal chord surgery, my son underwent the first of two Radio Frequency Ablations. At the time, a relatively new method of treatment less invasive than surgery, whereby the tumors in his spine were reached by way of a similar probe as the one used for brain tumors, which administered radio waves that produce heat to destroy his masses. The procedure was successful both times completely dissolving his tumors. Unfortunately, he had to undergo the full blown surgery in 2004 to correct a condition that could not be treated by way of radio frequency. But imagine having to open him up three times instead of one. The Ablation procedures saved him from that nightmare. And I remember back then thinking how great it would've been if they could have had that procedure to treat my sister. Praise the Lord! Looks like now they do.
To read more about this amazing scientific technology, you can click on this link: New Laser Approach Attacks Remote Brain Tumors Once Unreachable With Surgery.
Maybe this treatment could have prolonged Al Hernandez's life, too. And it may prolong my own life...who knows what the future has in store for us? But we do need to look at all avenues of treatment. And remain optimistic!
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Good News for those in need
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