Eli5: How does cryotherapy kill cervical cancer cells?

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I just learnt about cryotherapy in treating cervical cancer. How do they manage to freeze cancer cells that are inside the body without damaging normal healthy cells??

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The goal of cryotherapy (and most cancer therapies) is to kill all of the cancer cells while killing the fewest possible normal cells. But it will kill normal cells as well.

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