Family friend diagnosed with kidney, lung and spine cancer and wonder if cryoablation would help in canada please help to educate us here in canada if cryoablation would help a patient in ontario canada just diagnosed with multiple places of cancer and he

Cryoablation : Cryoablation (local freezing) and radiofrequency or microwave ablation (local burning) are good techniques for destroying tumors with just a small puncture in the skin. As a group, these temperature-based techniques are called "termal ablation." thermal ablation techniques are routinely used in the kidney and lung and, to a lesser extent, the spine. The issue in this case is that localized control does not make much sense if the primary tumor has already spread to other locations. It is uncommon to treat tumors in more than one area, and even less so to treat them in three areas, using such targeted techniques. A far more common approach is to start with systemic chemotherapy and then "clean up" any tumors left over with thermal ablation. There are a lot of interventional radiologists in ontario who are familiar with thermal ablation. I would suggest that visit the "doctor finder" section on the web page of the society of interventional radiology to find one close to you: http://doctor-finder.Sirweb.Org/.