Radiofrequency Ablation Growing In Popularity As A Treatment For Cancer

December 07th, 2007 | Category: Cancer

Millennium Research Group forecasts that radiofrequency ablation (RFA) procedures for cancer treatment will grow at nearly 12% by the next five years in the US. According to Millennium Research Group’s US Markets for Nonvascular Interventional Radiology Devices 2008 report, by 21,000 RFA procedures

will be performed in 2007 on patients with liver, kidney, breast, lung, and metastatic bone cancers; by 2012, RFA procedures will reach by 36,000. [click link for full article]

Original post by Women’s Health / Gynecology News From Medical News Today

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