Special Symposia on Interventional Oncology

                   For RSNA 2011 attendees who are interested in interventional oncology, two special symposias will be held on Monday and again on Thursday. Monday’s symposium will discuss various minimally invasive treatments about lung cancer, and Thursday’s symposium will be about renal cell carcinoma.
"There are a lot of minimally invasive techniques that are done by interventional radiologists to treat tumors," said Damian Dupuy, MD, from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, who will chair the interventional oncology symposia. "In this day and age, when you have the baby boomers turning 65 and in their cancer years, it is going to be very difficult and expensive to use expensive invasive treatments to treat their cancer."
               Minimally invasive therapy is made possible thanks to imaging techniques, he said.
"We can use less invasive and less costly procedures. They may be as effective and certainly for small kidney tumors, I think that surgery is not the way to go."
           RSNA 2011 will also feature distinguished lectures and special addresses.
           Nowadays,many kinds of medical equipments can diagnose the cancer and tumors, such as high frequency mobile x ray machine, c arm machine,digital x ray machine, fluoroscopic equipment ect.
RSNA 2011 Annual Meeting; November 27 to December 2, 2011.