Cryosurgery has a wide range of uses for the destruction of tumours. Acceptability among dermatologists for the treatment of skin cancer appears high. In the treatment of oral cancer, cryosurgery is not yet widely accepted, but it should be more commonly used for early cancer and in the management of selected problems in therapy. It has established a reasonably firm place in the treatment of prostatic cancer, perhaps because of continued interest in the immunologic benefits, while its use in gynecologic organs is limited to carcinoma in situ or to selected patients with advanced cancer. In all these areas, it has been used with surprisingly good results in selected patients who were high risks under conventional methods of therapy. The trial of cryosurgery in the treatment of bone tumors should prove its efficacy. Today's interest in cryosurgery is consistent with the current trend to conservatism in cancer surgery.
冷冻手术在肿瘤破坏方面有广泛用途。皮肤科医生对皮肤癌治疗的接受度似乎很高。在口腔癌治疗中，冷冻手术尚未被广泛接受，但它应更常用于早期癌症以及治疗中某些特定问题的处理。它在前列腺癌治疗中已确立了相当稳固的地位，这或许是因为人们持续关注其免疫益处，而它在妇科器官中的应用仅限于原位癌或部分晚期癌症患者。在所有这些领域，对于传统治疗方法下属于高风险的特定患者，使用冷冻手术都取得了惊人的良好效果。冷冻手术治疗骨肿瘤的试验应能证明其疗效。如今对冷冻手术的关注与当前癌症手术保守治疗的趋势相符。
