Non-Surgical Treatment of Kidney Cancer: Radio Frequency Ablation and Cryosurgery
Kamran Ahmar, M.D.
Houston, Texas, November 2007
Dr. Kamran Ahmar of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, discusses the use of two methods of dealing with kidney tumors that can be done with tiny probes inserted through the skin guided by imaging to destroy the tumor tissue -- Radio frequency ablation (using heat) and cryosurgery (using freezing).
