Cryosurgery: Purpose, Procedure Risks - Healthline Cryosurgery is a procedure that doctors use to treat skin cancer, skin lesions, prostate cancer, and other types of cancer Extreme cold is used to destroy abnormal tissue such as tumors
Cryosurgery to Treat Cancer - NCI - National Cancer Institute Cryosurgery is a local treatment that uses extreme cold produced by liquid nitrogen or argon gas to destroy cancer cells and abnormal tissue Learn how cryosurgery works, about the types of cancer and precancers it is used to treat, and the benefits and drawbacks of cryosurgery
Cryosurgery - Wikipedia Cryosurgery (with cryo from the Ancient Greek κρύο 'icy cold') is the use of extreme cold in surgery to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue; [1] thus, it is the surgical application of cryoablation
Cryosurgery: Types, Uses, Benefits, and Side Effects - Healthgrades Cryosurgery uses cold to freeze tissue and destroy it It is a method doctors can employ to treat cancerous and noncancerous conditions on the skin and inside the body Cryosurgery has several benefits, including being less invasive than other types of surgery
What Conditions Does Cryosurgery Help Treat? - Verywell Health Cryosurgery is a localized treatment that uses extreme cold from liquid nitrogen or argon gas to treat abnormal tissue, including cancer cells It can be used externally on skin, such as skin tags or skin cancer, or with certain internal tumors, such as early-stage prostate cancer or non-small cell lung cancer
Cryoablation for cancer - Mayo Clinic Cryoablation is called a minimally invasive procedure because it does not require open surgery with large cuts through the skin Cryoablation for cancer also is known as cryosurgery or cryotherapy
Cryosurgery: A review - PMC Cryosurgery involves tissue destruction under controlled freezing The main advantages of this technique are that it is less invasive and has lower morbidity compared with surgical resection However, the use of cryosurgery has been limited by a lack of good understanding of the underlying mechanisms of tissue destruction