Freezing prostate cancer does a man's body good
Monday, March 9, 2009 - 10:07
in Health & Medicine
The so-called 'male lumpectomy' - a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for prostate cancer - is as effective as surgery in destroying diseased tumours and can be considered a first-line treatment for patients of all risk levels and particularly those who have failed radiation, according to studies released at the Society of Interventional Radiology's 34th Annual Scientific Meeting. Additionally, the use of 3-D transperineal mapping biopsy for determining the extent of prostate cancer - when compared with the commonly used transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy - heavily impacted how patients' disease was managed in 70 percent of the cases...
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