PMID: 19928115Nov 26, 2009Paper

Nano-cryosurgery: advances and challenges

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Jing Liu, Zhong-Shan Deng

Abstract

In clinics, the minimally invasive freezing therapy, commonly known as cryosurgery, has been increasingly used for the controlled destruction of tumor tissue. However, there are still many bottlenecks to impede the success of a cryosurgery. One of the most critical factors has been that insufficient or inappropriate freezing will not completely destroy the target tumor tissues, which as a result may lead to tumor regenesis and thus failure of treatment. In addition, the surrounding healthy tissues may suffer from serious freeze injury due to unavoidable release of a large amount of cold from the freezing probe. To resolve these challenges, we recently proposed a new strategy, termed as nano-cryosurgery, to improve freezing efficiency of the conventional cryosurgical procedure. The basic principle of this protocol is to deliver functional suspension of nanoparticles with favorable physical and/or chemical properties into the target tissues, which then serve as adjuvant or drug carrier either to maximize the freezing heat transfer process, regulate freezing scale, modify ice-ball formation orientation or prevent the surrounding healthy tissues from being frozen. In addition, introduction of nanoparticles during cryosurgery could ...Continue Reading

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Mar 19, 2013·Journal of Healthcare Engineering·Yamin Yang, Hongjun Wang
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