Chennai, Jan. 30 -- The Chennai-based Sringeri Sharada Equitas (SSE) hospital has launched Microwave Ablation treatment for treating and curing cancer patients at an affordable cost.

A SSE hospital release here on Thursday said microwave ablation uses microwave energy for generating heat to kill, shrink cancerous tumor cells in organs such as kidney, lungs and liver.

A team of Interventional Radiologists and Oncologists place a small microwave antenna inside a tumor to slow down the progression of tumor growth and shrink them so that they can be safely removed by surgery or surgery can be avoided.

"Doctors utilize a CT scan to locate the tumor and insert the antenna through a small incision, guiding the probe to the tumor with conti...