Ultrasound-guided cryoablation can be considered for breast cancer patients who are poor surgical candidates or who refuse surgery, suggest findings published February 3 in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
Researchers led by Jolie Jean, MD, from New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Imaging in New York found a recurrence rate of 10% when following up with women who underwent cryoablation at an average of 21 months after the procedure.
“Breast cryoablation is a minimally invasive technique that represents a reasonable alternative for select patient populations,” Jean and colleagues wrote.
Breast conservation surgery and mastectomy with or without neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy are the standard of care in breast cancer treatment. However, not all women make for good surgical…