Promising treatment for prostate cancer within one hour
Surgeons at University College Hospital, London, have discovered a new method for treating prostate cancer that takes only an hour and does not require surgery.
The method that researchers believe will transform prostate cancer treatment is to use electric currents to destroy hard-to-reach tumors.
The ancient treatment methods for this type of cancer included radiation therapy or prostate removal, which caused many side effects such as urination problems, urinary incontinence and loss of sexual ability, according to "Sky News Arabia".
Surgeons called the new treatment NanoKnife, and it is based on sending rapid electrical pulses to the tumor, which makes it cut cancer cells without the need to make any incisions in the skin.
The website of the newspaper "The New Zealand Herald" confirmed that surgeons have so far performed six operations in this way on patients with prostate cancer.
"It's a new way to destroy cancer cells, and it's so simple that surgeons can be trained quickly," the newspaper quoted UCSD consultant urologist Mark Emberton as saying.
Emberton added: "The treatment is amazing and enables us to reach tumors in areas that a scalpel might not reach."
He explained that "since the treatment can be performed in less than an hour, surgeons are able to perform at least twice as many operations in the time it usually takes to perform a conventional operation, without a hospital stay."
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