crine cancer develops within a small tumour in the lungs you may be ated or removed by: insertion. A stent is a hollow tube that may be placed in your airway to ea of narrowing. The aim is to make your breathing easier, but a stent reat the cancer or nodal mass causing the narrowing.
ses light energy to hrough thermal activity activity is generated as ansfer of light energy to
refers to the use of ent delivered via – and is only used in tances and where ities exist.
Laser therapy (lung). Image Adapted from: Cancer Research UK https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about- cancer/lung-cancer/treatment/laser-therapy
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olposcopy is a method of examining the cervix, vagina, and vulva with ent called a colposcope – essentially a microscope with a light. ision of the Transformation Zone (LLETZ procedure) – is where the re removed using a fine wire and an electrical current. nder local anaesthetic (while you’re awake, but the cervical area is be done at the same time as a colposcopy.
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