Percutaneous imaging-guided cryoablation (PICA) is a recently developed technique, which
applies extreme hypothermia to destroy tumours under close imaging surveillance. It is …

Cancer cells can escape the immune system by different mechanisms. The evasion of
cancer cells from immune surveillance is prevented by immune checkpoint inhibitors …

Introduction Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process of transdifferentiation
where epithelial cells attain mesenchymal phenotype to gain invasive properties and thus …

Despite remarkable advances in tumor response and patient survival in the past decade,
systemic immunotherapies for lung cancer result in an objective response in only around …

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, with approximately 1.6 million
cancer related deaths each year. Prognosis is best in patients with early stage disease …

Purpose To compare survival rates of thermal ablation and stereotactic radiation therapy
(SRT) for stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials and Methods In this …

Background A prospective multicenter phase II trial to evaluate the survival outcomes of
percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for patients with stage IA non-small cell lung …

Image-guided percutaneous lung ablation has proven to be a valid treatment alternative in
patients with early-stage non-small cell lung carcinoma or oligometastatic lung disease …

In recent decades, multiple primary lung cancer (MPLC) has been increasingly prevalent in
clinical practice. However, many details about MPLC have not been completely settled, such …

Hintergrund Lokal-ablative Therapien haben sich als wichtiger interventionell-onkologischer
Therapieansatz etabliert. Radiofrequenzablation (RFA) und Mikrowellenablation (MWA) …