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New Tools for Treating Cancer of the Brain

(Inside Science) -- An interview with Steven Kalkanis at the Henry Ford Health System. What is laser interstitial thermal therapy? “One of the other incredible tools at our disposal is something called LITT, laser interstitial thermal therapy, or laser ablation. And it's essentially the ability to heat up, in a very specific way, tumors or lesions, or even a focus of seizures for epilepsy inside the brain. So, you can really heat up and kill cells that are part of a tumor, but even a cell layer away, it doesn't affect the normal brain. “We do this in an MRI scan so that we can tell the temperature of the surrounding tissue, and we can identify the path of this laser probe that we insert directly into the center of the tumor. And this has been a tremendous way of treating smaller lesions that might be very deep in the brain or in a region where we can't readily get to through traditional surgical means. And it just adds to our ability to treat these lesions.” Facebook:   / insidescience   Twitter:   / insidescience   Website: https://www.insidescience.org/