I don't have any experience with this. It appears to be an somewhat experimental procedure which has not gone through the testing required for approval in the U.S. Is there something specific about
it that appeals to you?
I found this article about
it:
www.news-medical.net/news/20100416/Trans-urethral-prostate-hyperthermia-treatment-offers-10025-response-rate.aspx That is a very favorable descript
ion, and if it really works I could readily see the appeal.
I found this, about
hyperthermia for cancer, in general:
www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/treatmenttypes/hyperthermiaI did a quick check of pubmed.com which is a specialized search engine that covers all the legitimate scientific medical journals worldwide. While I found some articles on trans-urethral therapies involving heat, they were mostly for benign prostatic enlargement rather than prostate cancer. And the ones that addressed cancer were early stage studies that involved nano-particles. So if it were for me, the first thing I would ask if there are any articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals that show that this treatment has been tested and found to be effective.
Personally, I would be a little skeptical about
this sentence: "Radio frequencies are pulsed into the prostate, heating the cancer cells to between 113 and 158 degrees." Roast beef is done rare at a temperature around 140 degrees, and 158 degrees is getting into medium-to-well-done territory, so it is hard for me to believe that this procedure could be killing the cancer cells yet sparing the healthy tissue with this temperature range. But I am not a doctor, not even close.
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