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- From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Liver Cancer
- Message-ID: <1151@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 13:34:34 GMT
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- In article <!lhr6!=@lynx.unm.edu> pjohnso@polaris.unm.edu (Zoe Paddy Johnson CIRT CSOS) writes:
- >I am looking for some information for a friend. Last month on *Prodigy*
- >in their health news section there was a news item about a new and promising
- >treatment for liver cancer involving cryo-surgery and ultra-sound. I read
- >it and noted it, never imagining that a friend would have need of the
- >information just a short time later. I am unable to remember relevant
- >details like who? and where?. Did anyone else see this item? or have other
- >information about this that might be of help in locating this item or, better
- >yet, the medical center and doctors involved? I think I remember that it
- >was some place east of New Mexico, like maybe ?Pitt??
- >Thanks,
- >ZoeJ
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- It's being done at Allegheny General Hospital.
- (here in Pittsburgh).
- One of the physicians involved, if I'm not mistaken, is Gary Onik.
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- I can't give you more details because we don't have any experience
- with the procedure.
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- Howard Doyle
- doyle+@pitt.edu
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