Ice-cold gas 'kills' breast cancer

[Washington]

"BREAST cancers can be killed off by being frozen with streams of super-cold gas, scientists have discovered.

And, in a major breakthrough, the “ice-ball” created around a tumour by the injections not only kills it off but ensures the cancer does not return.

Fine needles are used to inject the freezing gas around the tumour in a technique known as cryotherapy, which means the patient does not need invasive surgery and suffers no major discomfort."

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WARNING. Link contains picture of covered bare breast.

 

[Billnew]

WARNING. Link contains picture of covered bare breast.
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NO! not a covered bare breast!
warning:bare armpit!

My first thought was, no kidding, you freeze any tissue, it dies.
The way I understood it, the cancer tissue freezes faster then regular tissue, thus the cancer is killed while the tissue around it survives,
the cancer is frozen intact so the chance of cancer cells being littered around the area(if not all killed) as in a biopsy. The cancer cells not killed by cold would more then likely die off, for lack of blood supply.
It sounds like a great path of study.

I wonder if they tried other cancers?

Freeze dried cancer? No just for coffee anymore.