Microwave tissue coagulation therapy for breast cancer (A preliminary report)

• Published in: Journal of Microwave Surgery Vol. 13; pp. 23 - 26
• Main Authors: Kondo, Satoshi, Furukawa, Masato, Nakata, Toshinori, Sakai, Tsutomu, Mine, Yoshikazu, Sasaki, Makoto, Okuhama, Yukihiro, Saito, Tomokazu, Arakaki, Mitsuyuki, Fujii, Hideharu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese; English
• Published: Study Group of Microwave Surgery 1995
• Subjects: breast cancer; microwave coagulation therapy
• ISSN: 0917-7728; 1882-210X
• DOI: 10.3380/jmicrowavesurg.13.23

Recently, there has been a trend towards reduction in the use of surgical methods to treat breast cancer in the early stage. We speculated whether it is possible to apply microwave tissue coagulation (MTC) therapy, which is currently being used in the treatment of liver tumor, to the reduction of breast cancer. We first conducted a preliminary histological study to investigating the effect of MTC on mammary gland tissue. When MTC was performed for 60 seconds at a power of over 75W, hyaline degeneration was found in an area with a radius of approximately 5 mm, indicating cell death. There remain many problems to be solved in the future, but MTC therapy may be an effective method of treating non-invasive type breast cancer with a circumference of approximately 1 cm.