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The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR)'s 34th Annual Scientific Meeting is scheduled to be held on March 7– March 12, 2009. The associated Scientific press conferences will be held on March 9 and 10.

They will be held at San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.; press room: 15A; press conference room: 15B.

Nearly 5,300 physicians/scientists/allied health professionals will be attending the SIR's meeting. There will be almost 400 scientific presentations and posters covering the newest trends in interventional radiology research and also 150 technical exhibits and product demonstrations. Numerous breaking news are expected to be out from two scientific press conferences.

Some of the topics that will be featured at this year’s news conferences include:

• Killing kidney cancer with cold: remarkable results
• Using focal therapy/mapping for prostate cancer: look, no surgery
• Treating herniated discs: pain relief from unexpected source
• Seeing “Lazarus effect”: relieving bone tumor pain
• Examining heart attack risk: surprising look at Framingham Risk Scores
• Treating peripheral arterial disease: stem cell therapy advance.
• Studying women’s health: making childbirth safer

To register online (free) , visit www.SIRmeeting.org

About the Society of Interventional Radiology

Interventional radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments. They offer the most in-depth knowledge of the least invasive treatments available coupled with diagnostic and clinical experience across all specialties. They use X-ray, MRI and other imaging to advance a catheter in the body, usually in an artery, to treat at the source of the disease internally. As the inventors of angioplasty and the
catheter-delivered stent, which were first used in the legs to treat peripheral arterial disease, interventional radiologists pioneered minimally invasive modern medicine.
Today many conditions that once required surgery can be treated less invasively by interventional radiologists. Interventional radiology treatments offer less risk, less pain and less recovery time compared to open surgery.

Source: http://www.sirweb.org