BREAST cancers can be killed off by being frozen with streams of super-cold gas, scientists have discovered.
And, in a major breakthrough, the “ice-ball” created around a tumour by the injections not only kills it off but ensures the cancer does not return.
Fine needles are used to inject the freezing gas around the tumour in a technique known as cryotherapy, which means the patient does not need invasive surgery and suffers no major discomfort
What would happen to the dead tissue that results from the use of the cold gas? Wouldn't it be similar to severe frost bite in which there are usually amputations (aka invasive surgery)?