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Actually the best we can do for patients with non-curable cancers is to improve their life expectancy and to give them a better quality of life by treating the most distressing symptoms. Lasers allow palliation of bleeding and obstruction in the respiratory, digestive, and urinary tracts, applied as unic therapeutic resource or in combination with radio- and chemo-therapy or with other endoscopic procedures. Besides palliation Endoscopic Laser Therapy (ELT), has curative indications, firstly in high risk patients with cancers at early stages and then in accurately selected cases, as an alternative to traditional therapeutic methods. Also sessile adenomas of the digestive tube can be treated by laser.
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Spinelli, P., Dal Fante, M. (1988). Endoscopic Nd: YAG Laser Photocoagulation in Oncology: A 5 Year Experience. In: Waidelich, W., Waidelich, R. (eds) LASER Optoelectronics in Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72870-9_155
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