Prostate Cancer Effects
Wed,26 October 2011
Prostate cancer afflicts 1 out of every 6 American men during their lifetimes, and accounts for 25% of all cancer diagnoses in men. As with the great majority of breast cancer cases, most prostate cancers appear to be stimulated to grow and spread by sex hormones produced by the gonads. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about the emergence of cryoablation as a treatment for prostate cancer.
Cryoablation uses slender probes to freeze tumors and surrounding normal tissue, and has been proposed as an alternative to surgery or radiation therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer. In July of 2008,