Basics of Cryosurgery

and collaborators succeeded in proving met. We became acquainted during a their existence in the laboratory. General Meeting of the Board of Directors Cryosurgery is an alternative choice for of the European Society of Cryosurgery; I the treatment of selected patients with in- was very impressed with his intelligence, ternal tumors. 1. S. Cooper, as long ago as energy and determination. He is an inno- vative researcher, a scientist and a therapist, 1963, suggested the use of cryosurgery for the destruction of primary and metastatic with a good sense of leadership. Professor tumors of the liver, because cryosurgery Korpan has dedicated himself especially to has several well-known advantages over the study of the surgical treatment of the liver, bile ducts and pancreas, has pub- classic surgery: 1) it is effective in inducing tumor cell necrosis; 2) it spares more nor- lished many papers and is the author of mal tissue than resection, with less risk of three books. Co-founder in 1997 and vice hemorrhage and dissemination of cancer president of the European Society of Cryo- cells; 3) it makes the treatment of unresec- surgery, he is also founder and presi- table tumors possible, particularly those dent of the Vienna International Institute involving large vessels; 4) it allows re- for Cryosurgery. Also an inventor, he has treatment; 5) it may induce an immuno- devised 31 patents, some of which are stimulating effect against residual cancer.