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First case of radiofrequency ablation of biliary cancer in Colombia
August 2022, Jesús Pérez Orozco, specialized in surgical clinical
gastroenterology,
completed the first case of radiofrequency ablation of a
biliary tumor in Colombia, increasing the survival and quality of life of a
patient with terminal biliary cancer.
This procedure, according to the American Cancer
Society, is a minimally invasive treatment which requires endoscopic surgery
through a technique called ERCP,
which is a bipolar energy technique to ablate
tumors. The technique is guided by images that use
electrical currents to destroy cancer cells.
Two radiofrequency ablation treatments
were carried out by Dr.
Orozco;
one case of pancreatic tumor for cure, a 60-year-old man who had a
pancreatic, neuroendocrine tumor that was cured with ablation.
And another of tumor
bile for palliation, an 84-year-old man, who has an inoperable biliary tumor,
to whom we applied radiofrequency and placed a biliary prosthesis, increasing
his survival and improving his quality of life.
According to the director of the outpatient clinic, this technique is
applied to improve the quality of life of the patient,
since if a patient has a
life expectancy of six months, after the procedure, his quality of life would
increase, at least, three to six times more.
The patient feels less pain, fewer
cases of infection after the procedure, and the best thing is that he/she can
go home the same day because it is an outpatient operation.
In addition, in conversation with the health professional, he explained
that Barranquilla is a pioneer, at this time, in all of South America,
in
advanced gastroenterology operations. “Our distributor is a Korean company called TaeWoong and the system that
makes radiofrequency possible is called EUSRA™ or ELRA™,
which is an endoscopic RFA electrode used for safe removal in the common bile duct under a proprietary
temperature control system”,
explained the specialist. Radiofrequency treatment brings great benefits to the health of cancer
patients, according to Orozco.
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