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  2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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    For men over 64 with prostate cancer limited to the pelvis, using fewer, larger doses of radiation (hypofractionation) results in similar overall survival rates. [28] The risk of dying from prostate cancer or having acute bladder side effects may be similar to that of longer radiation treatment. [28]

  3. Cryotherapy - Wikipedia

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    Cryotherapy patients during preparation of treatment of c. 3 minutes. An increasing amount of research is done on the effects of whole-body cryotherapy on exercise, beauty, and health. Research is often inconsistent because of the usage of the different types of cryo-chambers, and different treatment periods.

  4. Brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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    Body sites in which brachytherapy can be used to treat cancer. Brachytherapy is commonly used to treat cancers of the cervix, prostate, breast, and skin. [1]Brachytherapy can also be used in the treatment of tumours of the brain, eye, head and neck region (lip, floor of mouth, tongue, nasopharynx and oropharynx), [10] respiratory tract (trachea and bronchi), digestive tract (oesophagus, gall ...

  5. Cryosurgery - Wikipedia

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    Cryosurgery (with cryo from the Ancient Greek κρύο ' icy cold ') is the use of extreme cold in surgery to destroy abnormal or diseased tissue; [1] thus, it is the surgical application of cryoablation. Cryosurgery has been historically used to treat a number of diseases and disorders, especially a variety of benign and malignant skin ...

  6. Prostate brachytherapy - Wikipedia

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    LDR prostate brachytherapy (seed or line source implantation) is a proven treatment for low to high risk localized prostate cancer (when the cancer is contained within the prostate). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Under a general anaesthetic, the radioactive seeds are injected through fine needles directly into the prostate , so that the radiotherapy can destroy ...

  7. Cryoablation - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Irving S. Cooper, in 1913, progressed the field of cryotherapy by designing a liquid nitrogen probe capable of achieving temperatures of -196 °C, and utilizing it to treat of Parkinson's disease and previously inoperable cancer. Cooper's cryoprobe advanced the practice of cryotherapy, which led to growing interest and practice of cryotherapy.

  8. Androgen deprivation therapy - Wikipedia

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    Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), also called androgen ablation therapy or androgen suppression therapy, is an antihormone therapy whose main use is in treating prostate cancer. Prostate cancer cells usually require androgen hormones, such as testosterone, to grow. ADT reduces the levels of androgen hormones, with drugs or surgery, to prevent ...

  9. Gary Onik - Wikipedia

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    Gary Onik is the inventor of ultrasound-guided cryosurgery procedures for the prostate and for the liver. Onik treated the first liver patients with cryosurgery in 1986 and the first patient with ultrasound-guided prostate cancer cryosurgery in 1990. He developed techniques and instrumentation that have been integral to the minimally invasive ...