A non-surgical procedure used to treat liver cancer also holds promise for lung cancer patients. Percutaneous image-guided radio frequency ablation, which takes less than an hour, targets large tumors with no harm to surrounding healthy tissue. Seventy percent of lung cancer patients treated with RFA survived at least one year with few side effects, according to a study expected to be published in the July edition of The Lancet Oncology.
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