“For many women, this is about aligning their cancer treatment with their values – doing what’s necessary, but not more than necessary.” -Dr. Dennis Holmes
Dr. Dennis Holmes is an internationally recognized breast cancer surgeon, educator, and cancer researcher specializing in innovative approaches to breast cancer treatment. He serves as the Medical Director of the Sam and Grace Carvajal Comprehensive Breast Center at Adventist Health Glendale in Los Angeles, California and is Co-Founder and CEO of XpediteMD, Inc., a digital health technology company working to improve the efficiency, quality, and value of cancer care.
Dr. Dennis Holmes is a pioneer in treatment innovations including intraoperative radiotherapy, oncoplastic surgery, and cryoablation, a minimally invasive office-based alternative to surgery.
Cryoablation is a procedure that freezes and destroys breast tumors by injecting liquid nitrogen into the tumor. It’s an innovative technique that gives patients a much less expensive and less invasive treatment option than lumpectomy surgery that is just as effective.
In this informative interview Dr. Holmes also discusses cryoablation for cancer tumors and cryo-assisted biopsy, a revolutionary technique that helps prevent cancer cells from spreading after a biopsy.
Cryoablation for cancer is a treatment option that everyone needs to know about.
I’m grateful for Dr. Holmes’ dedication to safer, effective, and minimally invasive breast cancer treatment options. Enjoy!
Watch our interview below, or listen to it on the Chris Beat Cancer podcast on iTunes or Spotify.
Dr. Holmes unedited interview transcrits
Show Notes
-What is cryoablation? [1:44]
-Recurrence rates of cryoablation vs. surgery [5:03]
-Steps to prevent metastasis during cryoablation [10:20]
-Exploring cryoablation for other cancers [12:58]
-Cryoablation costs half to a third less than surgery [15:19]
-Addressing lymph node involvement with cryoablation [20:41]
-Cryo-assisted biopsy can prevent cancer spread [24:18]
-Cryoablation for DCIS and Stage 1 breast cancer [26:00]
-Treating larger tumors with advanced cyoablation techniques [30:45]
Connect with Dr. Holmes
Website: www.cryoablation.com
Website: www.drholmesmd.com
Facebook: Dennis R. Holmes
Instagram: @drholmesmd
Tiktok: @drholmesmd
LinkedIn: Dennis R. Holmes, MD
Resources mentioned in this interview:
Video by Dr. Holmes: 6-Year update of the FROST (Freezing instead of Resection Of Small Tumor) clinical trial
ICE-3 Clinical Trial
A Phase II Trial Exploring the Success of Cryoablation Therapy in the Treatment of Invasive Breast Carcinoma
Cryoablation Without Excision for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
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Blessings to you Chris and the doctors. Thank you for your passion and wonderful works for everyone… Praise the Lord!
Thank you for sharing this interview. This method offers some hope for those of us who have refused surgery, but $10k for one ablation and more fees for multiple ablations makes this unaffordable for many of us. But maybe it will soon be approved and insurance will kick in.
Sounds like I would have been the perfect candidate for this procedure. I would have loved to be in a trial. Just had a lumpectomy in Jan. Still deciding what I want to do next. Hoping this gets FDA approval soon for others!! I hope the cancer medical community will embrace this
Fantastic interview
Thank you
Rosa
Thank you dear Chris and Dr Holmes for that interview. It’s always useful what you bring for all survivors.
I was fortunate enough to find a cryoablation surgeon in my own backyard. She is Dr Bednarski in Myrtle Beach, SC. She is wonderful and a pleasure to talk to. I am so happy to have found an alternative to conventional treatment. I first was directed to who was considered to be the best breast surgeon in the area. He was insisting on a mastectomy followed by immediate reconstruction with his plastic surgeon partner. When I met with the plastic surgeon, he recommended a double mastectomy so he could-and I quote- “ have a blank canvas to work with”. I think I may have actually run out of his office.
Wow, how horrible! Good for you! ❤️
Thank you for sharing this information! I was blessed to have found a trial for cryoablation just down the road from me in St. Louis and so blessed that I met all the criteria and so was able to have it done this past February instead of a lumpectomy. The procedure was so easy and so simple with hardly any recovery time. And fascinating to watch!
I’m praying this procedure is approved soon, so it can become more widely available and more financially accessible. As part of the trial, there was no cost to me for the procedure.
Sue is the trial still on? If so could you send me info?
Thank you for this interview. I’m currently facing the option of cryoablation in the UK, for kidney cancer, on a solitary kidney. Cryoablation seems better than surgery but my only concern and why I haven’t been able to make a decision, is that I understand this procedure kills the tumour but what happens to the cancer stem cells (CSC’s) they aren’t killed by this procedure so is cryoablation a case of hoping a tumour never comes back or is that, once it’s gone, it’s gone and you have to continue using all the natural compounds we know affect cancer stem cells? I’d really like some knowledge on this because I’m not getting any answers and should it grow any bigger, I may not be eligible for this procedure anymore. Thanks
Great interview. Would have opted for this given the opportunity on my first diagnosis in 2007. Wishing they could do this for multiple lesions of mbc in liver.