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Follow-up data on cryotherapy for prostate cancer

In a newly published report, a team of clinicians from Columbia University Medical Center has provided data on the 10-year follow-up of a small group of patients treated with salvage or primary cryotherapy for prostate cancer. Clinicians claim that this is the longest reported follow-up on patients treated with cryotherapy and the first reported 10-year outcome data.

The report authors state that the long-term results of prostate cryotherapy in their series indicate an 87 percent prostate-cancer-specific survival at a median follow-up of 10 years, despite the fact that these patients were treated with relatively early cryotherapy technology and the fact that > 50 percent of these patients met D’Amico high-risk criteria. Overall survival at 10 years, however, was only 56.6 percent in this group of patients. [ read more ]