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The influence of cryosurgery and electrocoagulation upon metastatic spread
Author(s) -
Zonnevylle J. A.,
Zwaveling A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930270215
Subject(s) - cryosurgery , electrocoagulation , medicine , metastatic tumor , surgery , lung , cancer , metastasis
An experiment was performed to investigate the hypothesis that cryosurgery or electrocoagulation of a tumor can have an inhibitory effect upon the metastatic process. Prior investigation had shown that both electrocoagulation and cryosurgery were as effective in causing a local cure of tumor as local excision. An intravenous injection of tumor cells was given a week after local treatment of 10‐day‐old subcutaneous tumors had been administered, and 2 weeks later the number of lung metastases was counted. No extra beneficial effect of cryosurgery or electrocoagulation upon the metastatic process could be demonstrated, neither with the antigenic tumor system used nor with two nonantigenic systems.