Infertility

Press Conference Monday, April 3, at 9 a.m.

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First Study of Uterine Fibroid Embolization for Post-Menopausal Women: Although uterine fibroids generally regress after menopause, there are many post-menopausal women who continue to suffer pain, constipation, urinary frequency and other symptoms due to their fibroids.

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Non-Surgical Thermal Ablation Treats Painful Chest Wall Tumors: New non-surgical techniques — radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation and microwave ablation — heat or freeze the cancerous cells, which kills the tumor and nerve endings in the vicinity that were causing pain.3.

Laser Provides Children with Less Painful Treatment for Vascular Malformations: Interventional Radiologists adapt existing non-surgical laser technology to treat painful and disfiguring vein defect.4.

Study Compares Complications of Surgical and Non-Surgical Treatments for Uterine Fibroids: Major complications, infections and pulmonary embolisms were tracked in 312 patients.WHERE: Metro Toronto Convention Centre– Press conference room 802ARSVP: Additional meeting information can be found at http://www.SIRmeeting.org.INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES, MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND BROADCAST-QUALITY VIDEO FOOTAGE AVAILABLE© 2006 Newswise.

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