Hot needles - a new method of cancer

Doctors started using hot needles, allowing "cook" cancer of the prostate. The method has shown very high efficiency.

Hot needle called a device that enters via injections in the affected prostate tumors to work on it with the help of high temperatures. This allows you to destroy the cancer cells without affecting surrounding healthy tissue. The width of the needle is only a 2 mm, which allows doctors to affect only a certain part of the prostate.

Above all, this method significantly reduces the risk of side effects in the treatment of prostate cancer , Which include impotence and incontinence. At the moment the device is undergoing clinical trials on 60 patients in the UK. Previously, using the same technology successfully developed to treat breast cancer and kidney.

Prostate Cancer   is the most common type of cancer among women, accounting for 25% of all cancer diseases men. In medicine, there are different methods of treating cancer, which depend on whether the tumor is localized within the prostate or has spread to other organs metastases.

For localized tumors are sometimes the most effective method is the absence of any action and surveillance (doctors carefully monitor the cancer). But in most cases it uses radical prostatectomy - removal of the prostate gland. This highly effective treatment often leads to unpleasant side effects due to the fact that during operation damaged nerves. That is why the medicine is interested in so-called therapy using focused energy waves. Now actively used high-intensity ultrasound and radiofrequency ablation, a category which includes hot needles.

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