Cryotherapy for prostate cancer: Ready for prime time?

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 218-222

  Pisters, Louis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryotherapy; Focal cryotherapy; Negative post treatment biopsies; Overtreatment; Prostate biopsy; Prostate cancer; PSA testing; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MONOTHERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM FISTULA; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; CRYOTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951298004     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e3283385570     Document Type: Review

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