TY - JOUR
AU1 - Onik, Gary
AB - Background: Prostate cancer in men raises many of the Current management of prostate cancer covers both ends of same issues that breast cancer does in women. Complica- the treatment spectrum. Patients can elect no treatment at tions of prostate cancer treatment, including impotence and all, i.e., ‘‘watchful waiting’’ [1], or aggressive whole-gland incontinence, affect the self-image and psyche of a man no treatments such as radical prostatectomy, with no middle less than does the loss of a breast in a woman. We present a ground available. Both management approaches leave pilot study in which 21 patients were treated with a focal something to be desired. In ‘‘watchful waiting’’ a patient cryoablation procedure. may miss his window of curability, particularly if his cancer Methods: Focal cryoablation was performed using biplane is under-staged to begin with. Aggressive whole-gland transrectal ultrasound if the tumor was confined to only one treatments can have significant lifestyle-limiting morbidity prostate lobe. Preoperative PSA values were recorded. such as incontinence and impotence. The literature indicates Cryoablation was planned to encompass the area of known that nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy and radiation have tumor. PSA values were obtained every 3 months for 2 years similar long-term potency rates of 
TI - Rationale for a “Male Lumpectomy,” a Prostate Cancer Targeted Approach Using Cryoablation: Results in 21 Patients with at Least 2 Years of Follow-Up
JF - CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
DO - 10.1007/s00270-004-0232-0
DA - 2007-06-23
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/rationale-for-a-male-lumpectomy-a-prostate-cancer-targeted-approach-gSosZvT15D
SP - 98
EP - 106
VL - 31
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -