Killing cancer with cold
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Cryosurgery, which uses extremely low temperature, may be used to treat cancer when conventional treatment fails. The malignant tissue is frozen with liquid nitrogen applied with a cryoprobe.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1993
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Progress in cancer survival
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The five-year survival rate for cancer patients has grown to 51%. Current survival rates for breast, lung, colon-rectum, prostate and bladder cancer patients are compared with 1940s rates.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 1992
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Winning the war on cancer
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The details of the latest research on drugs that effectively cure cancer are presented.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 2005
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