New surgical procedure for prostate cancer uses natural orifices
July 29th, 2010 Posted in prostatectomyRemoving the prostate is a common treatment for patients with prostate cancer.Recently, urologists at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, suggest that the latest advances in the surgical treatment of the disease involve using the body’s own natural orifices as access points instead of making incisions through the skin. These types of procedures, Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery, or NOTES, have advanced over the past several years and now, it is believed for the first time, a NOTES procedure has been perfected to remove the prostate.