- Now is the time to stop and assess whether we can use less invasive techniques in the treatment o

Developments aids in the treatment is progressing rapidly. New processing techniques are gaining ground - with the aim of faster, more effective and less invasive treatment - in the same way as cancer. The following is a news on rm.dk
The surgical treatment of cancer of the kidney and prostate are undergoing rapid development. Both open operations, keyhole surgery which radiation is extensive treatments with similar disadvantages and side effects. But more precise and gentle techniques microwaves, ultrasound, freezing and radioactive seeds are well on the way to change the treatment.
At Aarhus University Hospital, performed today freezing treatment (focal cryoablation) of prostate and kidney cancer. The first prostate cancer patients have been discharged the same day, and the goal is to treat both cancers in day surgery.
The reason aids for this development is that there are now detected more and more tumors in the kidney and prostate in an early stage. Conventional treatment may be associated aids with major side effects, and it is therefore of interest to assess whether the disease in early stage only made to treat the diseased part of the body, as it already does for example. breast cancer.
- So far, we have treated a sick body is a trend today that we are much more focused approach and treat the sick in body. It's much less traumatic for the patient, who can get home quickly, said Dr. Knud Pedersen Venborg of Urology Division K, Skejby.
In kidney cancer selected in the past often to remove the entire kidney, even with small tumors. For a time it has been surgically removed tumors with keyhole aids surgery. This is technically difficult and may cause major bleeding. New techniques aids such as Radiofrequency (microwave) and cryoablation makes it possible to treat the tumor alone, without bleeding. At Aarhus University Hospital has been in a few years given the freezing treatment called percutaneous technique, ie putting one freeze location through the skin and into the tumor.
For prostate cancer, the traditional treatment has been called radical surgery and radical radiotherapy. Scientific studies show that doctors treat more patients than necessary because they lack the means to predict which tumors will later be the most dangerous. Unfortunately, aids a large proportion of patients who receive radical treatment losing erection ability, and some are permanent urinary incontinence as a result of the treatment.
Methods have been developed as high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), brachytherapy (implantation of radioactive seeds) and the freezing treatment, which makes it possible to treat only a portion aids of the prostate gland, i.e., focal treatment. This could help to avoid damaging the erection nerves and sphincter so that the patient will not have side effects. A requirement aids to provide focal therapy is to have thorough knowledge of tumor dissemination.
The treatment principle is based on extensive tissue samples and imaging. To provide aids an overview of the new opportunities have Urology Division aids K, Skejby, taken dynamic principle of initiation of the first European fagmøde on 'focal therapy' aids of cancer of the kidney and prostate. The meeting was held in Ebeltoft 25 and 26 September 2008 with the participation of approximately 70 doctors and scientists from the United States, aids Russia, several other European countries and Scandinavia. The meeting was organized in collaboration with the University of Aarhus, Nordic Urological Association and the Mid-Atlantic Cryo Group, USA.
- Now is the time to stop and assess whether we can use less invasive techniques in the treatment of cancer of the prostate and kidney. Therefore, we bring together the expertise so that we can jointly analyze the possibilities and get technical session on developments in this area, says chief physician Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen.
During the symposium aids presented the leading scientists of the various examination and treatment methods that can be used for focal therapy. aids They discussed the conditions for focal therapy, and what scientific studies needed to gain more knowledge about this new treatment aids principle for kidney and prostate cancer.
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