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We read with interest the article by Auernhammer and Göke1 on therapeutic strategies for liver metastasis in neuroendocrine carcinomas. Local tumour progress following radiofrequency ablation (RFA) occurred in only 6% of neuroendocrine carcinomas, but no data on overall survival and prognostic factors following RFA were available. As another thermal ablative technique for liver cancer, microwave ablation (MWA), which uses electromagnetic energy to rapidly rotate adjacent polar water molecules to achieve primarily active heating, shows the following advantages: higher intratumorous temperatures, larger ablation …
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Funding This study was funded by grants from the National Scientific Foundation Committee of China (30825010 and 81071210).
Competing interests None.
Patient consent Obtained.
Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by the Ethics Committee of the Ministry of Health of China.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.