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Sassoon joins research team in search of freezing cure for cervical cancer
Updated On: 26 February, 2013 02:52 AM IST | | Anup Satphale
The state-run tertiary Sassoon hospital is jointly participating with John Hopkins University in path-breaking research to treat patients in precancerous stages of the disease.
The research will be beneficial to evolve a treatment for cervical cancer. The unique treatment involves cryotherapy wherein liquid nitrogen is used to chill a cervix to minus-50 degree Celsius to combat and destroy any abnormal cells.
The treatment will help to check the disease and eradicate necessity to remove the uterus after cancer. The procedure has already been used on 22 women at Sassoon hospital, and doctors are monitoring them to ascertain whether it has been successful.
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