French doctors use laser to destroy brain tumor in conscious patient
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 30th 2008 3:12PM
posted August 30th 2008 3:12PM
Neurosurgery with robotic assistance is getting pretty old hat nowadays, so it looks like scientists are trying to up the difficulty factor by keeping their patients awake -- a team of French doctors just completed the first successful removal of malignant brain tumor from a still-conscious patient, using a computerized laser and an MRI scanner to guide the probe. The fiber-optic laser was fed into the brain through a 3mm (.12 inch) hole in the patient's skull and guided via MRI to the tumor, where it fired for two minutes and completely destroyed the cancerous tissue. Once the tumor cells were dead, the cable was removed and the patient was allowed to return home -- all within a single day. That's pretty impressive, and it comes on the heels of 15 similar trials where five out six patients who underwent the total removal procedure were cancer-free nine months after surgery. The team says further research will cost an additional two million euros to progress, but if this technique works as well as they claim after peer review, we'd guess that money won't be hard to come by.[Via Fark]
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my mother has a brain tumor
and i need the adress of doctor or center to treat my mother
any person can help me to find the adress of doctor or centre adress??
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thnx
You can find all that information in the source articles. I've send you an email anyhow, it's not my real address so don't even try to use it for something else. Good luck anyway.
Concious Laser removes patient and doctor.
Wow this is pretty special, hope they get the funding to carry this on. So many highest ranking comments too! Most win article I've seen in a long time, and no 'chargin ma lasers' comments too!
So the dead tumor tissue just stays in the patient's brain? While it might not be problematic I wouldn't want a dead cancer stuck in my brain.
Comments are funny when you don't have a brain tumor, metastasis or not, but when you
do you'll try anything, my brother has 7 tumors 3 in the brain trail meds from america has
decreased their growth, if the French can get rid of them he'll go for it.
I think the measurements for the hole are out 3mm isn't equal to 12 inchs.