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The Radiation Failure Patient
Recurrent
prostate cancer after failed radiation therapy is a difficult
clinical problem. Additional radiation is usually not
feasible and salvage radical prostatectomy has high complication
rates and often leaves cancer behind.
We
believe in an aggressive approach to the early diagnosis
of the full extent of the cancer recurrence in these patients.
Using 3D Prostate Cancer Mapping Biopsies the extent
of cancer is determined and if feasible a focal "Lumpectomy"
approach to limit the possibility for complications, is
carried out. Cryoablation is currently the only prostate
cancer treatment specifically approved by Medicare for
treating patients who have failed radiation.
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