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New Treatment for Hot Flashes Offers Promise
Bianca Kennedy, age 41, suffered terribly from hot flashes after being treated for breast cancer. Up to 25 times a day, she turned red and sweated uncontrollably. For the last 18 months, she's been completely free of hot flashes after a series of 3 injections of local anesthetic into nerve tissue located in the neck. She calles the treatments "life changing".
Stellate ganglion blocks (SGB), have been used safely for over 60 years to treat pain says board-certified anesthesiologist and pain management expert Eugene G. Lipov, M.D., Medical Director of the Chicago area-based Advanced Pain Centers. Nineteen out of twenty patients had at least an 80 percent decrease in hot flashes for a period of two weeks to a year following SGB. The SGB treatment is undergoing clinical trials with breast cancer patients under Dr Lipov's supervision.
Posted by Phil Daigle on May 9, 2007 12:43 PM
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