Cryosurgery treatment of prostate cancer

"Urology" magazine recently published the results of a large-scale follow-up study showed that cryosurgery is the treatment of prostate cancer may be a better choice: Although the United States last year, 190,000 patients, only about 3 thousand people received such treatment , but its effect is very significant indeed. This is the first prostate cryosurgery in cancer cells frozen and then thawed again until the death of cancer cells. Prostate Institute of the United States Duke K. Bahn, MD, such as used in the study on 590 cases of the patients were treated, and they did an average of 5.4 years of follow-up. The results show that, although early in the treatment of patients with the efficacy of radiotherapy and surgical method, but in patients with cryosurgery for advanced treatment more effective, but once the tumor recurrence was the implementation of cryosurgery can be repeated. Treatment only once about an hour, patients can usually be discharged within 24 hours, and a shorter recovery period. In addition, radiotherapy and surgery and conventional method, its long-term side-effects such as incontinence less.