Cancer pain is one of the main focus in managing quality of life in cancer. Cancer bone pain is particularly problematic and debilitating, because narcotics and radiation have little effect. Reuters has reported on a study that suggests a “freezing approach” to alleviate cancer bone pain called cryoablation, with response rates in 80% of patients in a small study and with a lasting effect up to 6 months. Matthew Callstrom, M.D., Ph.D., the study author and radiologist at the Mayo Clinic will present the results at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting this week (Nov 27, 2007). This approach was first reported by the Mayo Clinic in 2005 and continues today. A medical device technology is used for the procedure and the study was funded by a medical device company. Source: Reuters.