Gary Onik, born on 25 February 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City, is a medical doctor and inventor who is known for ultrasound-guided procedures for treating cancer with cryosurgery. He is credited as the inventor of ultrasound-guided cryosurgery procedures for the prostate and for the liver. He treated the first liver patients with cryosurgery in 1986 and the first patient with ultrasound-guided prostate cancer cryosurgery in 1990. He developed techniques and instrumentation that have been integral to the minimally invasive treatment of cancer. The cited source article is short, so this entry records his procedures and their dates and does not state his training or his employer.
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Gary Onik (born February 25, 1952, in Brooklyn, New York City)
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