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Posted 2/29/2008 9:58 PM (GMT 0)

Anybody ever heard of this or have any experience with it. Here's a link to an article in the local fish wrap about what's happening at Duke.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/health_science/story/973502.html 

Posted 2/29/2008 11:42 PM (GMT 0)
HI kdnole. Interesting article. Another decision and treatment option to consider. Hope you are doing well with the radiation.

Mika
Posted 3/1/2008 12:34 AM (GMT 0)
One of the urologists, Aaron Katz, at Columbia Presbyterian in NYC is the main pioneer of this technique. It is used in really specific instances and even Katz does not offer it to everybody.

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Freezing_Prostate_Tumors_Effective_For_Some_Men.asp?sitearea=NWS&viewmode=print&

You do have to be older for most docs to perform this.
Posted 3/2/2008 1:40 PM (GMT 0)
Mika,
The radiation at this point is pretty uneventful and I hope it stays that way. I'm just trying to avoid the flu that has run through it seems everyone here in NC, including my wife who is fighting it now.
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