Textbook of
Robotic Urologic
Surgery.



Release Date:
January, 2007

Michael Esposito,
Vincent Lanteri
&
Jeffrey Stock

CRYOTHERAPY FOR PROSTATE CANCER

Cryotherapy is an innovative minimally invasive procedure for treatment of prostate cancer. It uses ice to destroy prostate cancer. -20 to -40°C temperature are instantly lethal to cancer, resulting in immediate cancer cell death. It is approved by Medicare as a primary treatment for prostate cancer. It's also approved for prostate cancer that returns after radiation therapy. In fact, Cryotherapy is the only option available for cure after radiation failure beyond palliative hormonal therapy or potentially difficult, high risk radical prostatectomy.

It is also provides an option for a patient not willing or able to tolerate an open surgical technique or radiation/seed therapy. Recovery times tend to be shorter and the cancer-free survival rates are equivalent to surgery and to radiation in the favorable patient populations.

It involves no incisions. Procedure takes 1-2 hours to perform. Most patients go home the same day or the next day. Patients are discharge home with urinary catheter and remove in office 4-5 days.

Side effects: Moderate pelvic pain, Blood in urine, scrotal swelling, Mild urinary urgency, Urinary retention. In most cases symptoms are resolved in 1-2 Weeks.

Follow up care after Cryotherapy is important, follow up appointments should be kept and the PSA should be repeated every 3-6 months.

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