Women seeking treatment for early-stage breast cancer or benign lesions now have an option that may keep healthy tissue in place while maintaining positive outcomes.
Image-guided ablation in recent years has demonstrated its success in treating breast lesions, with studies highlighting the technique's safety profile and long-term patient outcomes.
Meghana Konanur, MD, from Duke University joins the show to talk about why a specific ablation technique called cryoablation, where tumors are frozen, has become more popular. Konanur is also a member of the Society of Breast Imaging.
Meghana Konanur, MD, explains ultrasound's advantages over CT and MRI in guiding breast ablation treatment.Konanur talks about considerations for choosing cryoablation, including which patients and conditions make good ablation candidates. She also discusses her experience in using this technique and what current research and guidelines have to say.
Finally, she shares her thoughts on reimbursement for ablation and how the technique can be more widely adopted.
Watch the full episode below.
