Professor Kecheng Xu, president of Fuda Cancer Hospital-Guangzhou and his deputy Dr. Lizhi Niu , upon the invitation of Professor Franco Lugnani, president of International Society of Cryosurgery, visited Europe from the April 14th to April 22nd, 2008. The places visited included Rome, Madrid, Palma De Mallorca, Malaga, Trieste and Venice.
While in Palma De Mallorca, Malaga and Trisete, Professor Xu and Dr. Niu delivered an academic report on “Percutaneous Cryosurgery for Cancer based on experience from 3580 cases of cancer treatment at Fuda Cancer Hospital-Guangzhou”.
The report focused on the use of cryosurgery in treatment of lung cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and other malignant tumors. About a hundred medical professionals and specialists attended the medical forum.
The forum also discussed the suitability of cryosurgery for various cancers, the techniques involved, side-effects and treatment effectiveness.
Participants at the forum were very impressed with and praised the achievements of Fuda Cancer Hospital in the treatment of lung cancer by cryosurgery operations performed percutaneously under the guidance of CT scan. For non-resectable lung cancer and for patients who are unsuitable to undergo traditional surgical operations, cryosurgery is of great importance to them.
Participants were very much interested in the treatment of pancreatic cancer by cryosurgery, which they believed would help to prolong the life expectancy of pancreatic cancer patients. Dr. Niu also participated with a team of local specialists to perform a cryosurgery operation on a prostate cancer patient.
Doctors from Spain were attending Dr Niu~s lecture of cryosurgery
Dr. Lizhi Niu giving a lecture of cryosurgery for cancer in Italy
Dr Franco Lugnani, president of International Society of Cryosurgery, was listening to the lecture by Dr Niu
Dr Xu and Dr Niu are discussing papers of cryosurgery with specialists
from Italy and Spain
Dr Niu participated in a cryosurgery operation with Dr. Lugnani, and Dr. Pedro from Spain