MRI-Guided Salvage Focal Cryoablation: A 10-Year Single-Center Experience in 114 Patients with Localized Recurrent Prostate Cancer

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Patients with localized recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) are typically treated with hormonal therapy, surgery (radical prostatectomy), or radiation therapy. These treatments are associated with serious side-effects such as incontinence and impotence. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided focal cryoablation is an emerging treatment for this patient group. This therapy aims to treat the cancer selectively while preserving the rest of the prostatic gland and thereby minimizing the risk of treatment toxicity. Cryoablation promises to delay and potentially avoid the initiation of other salvage treatments. In this article, we investigate the ability to achieve disease control and to avoid the need for other salvage treatments afterwards. Our research provides long-term e

SUBMITTER: Wimper Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10452144 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature