• Technology Advances Lung Cancer Treatment – Again!

    18Apr
    Categories: Developmental stage, Information, Management and Treatment Comments: 0

    microcoilsWhen it comes to lung cancer, it is sometimes possible to treat and even remove diseased tissue to prevent further advancement of the disease if screening happens to find it in the early stages of development. Like most cancers, early detection is key to higher survivability rates for the disease has not yet progressed to an advanced state. In lung cancer, there are small and there are large nodules, the later being more easily detected due to the size difference. Doctors have been experimenting with micro-coils, surgical materials that are almost on the nano-scale that mimics a small magnet when bombarded with radio waves making small nodules that used to elude current scanning technologies making detection and targeting easier. Removal of such infected tissue in the early stages is the best way to rid the lungs of already diseased nodules, and getting most of them out, small and large the best possible way to properly cure the disease.
    Thought the technology is still in it’s infancy, the smaller than life world of nano-technology is continuing to improve our abilities to spot such diseased tissue very much earlier than previous technology allowed. This in conjunction with better imaging equipment raises the chances of better screening and treatment of a killer disease such as lung cancer that kills hundreds of thousands the world over year after year.

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