INFO:Chinese Doctors Claim Cancer-Treatment Breakthrough

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Chinese Doctors Claim Cancer-Treatment Breakthrough

Updated 5:35 AM ET February 12, 2000

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese surgeons are declaring a breakthrough in cancer

treatment after turning a patient's malignant tumor into a ball of ice,

state media said on Saturday.

Doctors at Xijing Hospital in the northwestern city of Xian inserted a

superconductive knife, 0.0788 inches in diameter, into the tumor of liver

cancer patient, Xinhua news agency said.

By forcing high-pressure argon and helium gas through the knife point, they

were able to lower the temperature of the tumor to minus 220.

" In 60 seconds, the tumor became an ice ball, " the article said, adding " all

cancer cells were killed. "

" The operation took only 30 minutes. The patient felt no pain and there was

no bleeding, " it said.

" The therapy is a breakthrough in cancer treatment, " it quoted Dou Kefeng, a

surgeon in charge of the operation, as saying.

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[Guest guest]

Chinese Doctors Claim Cancer-Treatment Breakthrough

Updated 5:35 AM ET February 12, 2000

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese surgeons are declaring a breakthrough in cancer

treatment after turning a patient's malignant tumor into a ball of ice,

state media said on Saturday.

Doctors at Xijing Hospital in the northwestern city of Xian inserted a

superconductive knife, 0.0788 inches in diameter, into the tumor of liver

cancer patient, Xinhua news agency said.

By forcing high-pressure argon and helium gas through the knife point, they

were able to lower the temperature of the tumor to minus 220.

" In 60 seconds, the tumor became an ice ball, " the article said, adding " all

cancer cells were killed. "

" The operation took only 30 minutes. The patient felt no pain and there was

no bleeding, " it said.

" The therapy is a breakthrough in cancer treatment, " it quoted Dou Kefeng, a

surgeon in charge of the operation, as saying.

Congressional Battle Builds Over Stem Cells (Previous story)

U.N. Agency Rejects Greenpeace Waste-Dumping Claim (Next story)

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[Guest guest]

Chinese Doctors Claim Cancer-Treatment Breakthrough

Updated 5:35 AM ET February 12, 2000

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese surgeons are declaring a breakthrough in cancer

treatment after turning a patient's malignant tumor into a ball of ice,

state media said on Saturday.

Doctors at Xijing Hospital in the northwestern city of Xian inserted a

superconductive knife, 0.0788 inches in diameter, into the tumor of liver

cancer patient, Xinhua news agency said.

By forcing high-pressure argon and helium gas through the knife point, they

were able to lower the temperature of the tumor to minus 220.

" In 60 seconds, the tumor became an ice ball, " the article said, adding " all

cancer cells were killed. "

" The operation took only 30 minutes. The patient felt no pain and there was

no bleeding, " it said.

" The therapy is a breakthrough in cancer treatment, " it quoted Dou Kefeng, a

surgeon in charge of the operation, as saying.

Congressional Battle Builds Over Stem Cells (Previous story)

U.N. Agency Rejects Greenpeace Waste-Dumping Claim (Next story)

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[Guest guest]

Chinese Doctors Claim Cancer-Treatment Breakthrough

Updated 5:35 AM ET February 12, 2000

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese surgeons are declaring a breakthrough in cancer

treatment after turning a patient's malignant tumor into a ball of ice,

state media said on Saturday.

Doctors at Xijing Hospital in the northwestern city of Xian inserted a

superconductive knife, 0.0788 inches in diameter, into the tumor of liver

cancer patient, Xinhua news agency said.

By forcing high-pressure argon and helium gas through the knife point, they

were able to lower the temperature of the tumor to minus 220.

" In 60 seconds, the tumor became an ice ball, " the article said, adding " all

cancer cells were killed. "

" The operation took only 30 minutes. The patient felt no pain and there was

no bleeding, " it said.

" The therapy is a breakthrough in cancer treatment, " it quoted Dou Kefeng, a

surgeon in charge of the operation, as saying.

Congressional Battle Builds Over Stem Cells (Previous story)

U.N. Agency Rejects Greenpeace Waste-Dumping Claim (Next story)

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