The beginning of the XXI-st century is the period of impetuous application of cryosurgical method of treatment in clinical practice all over the world, and the 14th International congress of cryosurgery held on 3-6 November, 2007 in Beijing (China) was the evidence of it.
More than 150 delegates from 30 countries all over the world were congress participants. Ukraine was represented by the group of medical scientists and physicists led by Yaroslav Zharkov, director of “Pulse” scientific-and-production firm (CPF). All reports made by Ukrainian scientists have attracted keen interest of leading cryosurgeons of the world. Ukrainian doctors presented results of cryosurgical method in treatment of breast tumours (Prof. A.A. Lytvynenko, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oncology AMS of Ukraine), neoplasms in female reproductive organs (Prof. A.Ya. Senchuk, Head of the chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the Medical institute of the Ukrainian association of folk medicine), tumours of head, neck and skin (O.O. Galay, cand. med. sci., Head of the head and neck department at Lviv State oncologic regional medical-diagnostic centre). Yaroslav Zharkov, Director of “Pulse” CPF, has presented construction of universal cryosurgical unit “Cryo-Pulse” which, according to the experts’ evaluation, is definitely superior to the best domestic and foreign analogues in technical parameters.
Congress participants have noticed growing popularity of cryosurgical method of treatment, first of all, in oncology. The cryosurgery by right becomes an independent effective field of medicine, and Ukrainian cryosurgeons occupy leading position there.