Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
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Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#2This seems like a game changer. According to the company website they have treated 6,000 patients.
Further Googling showed it has been around since 2008 and machine in 2010 the machines cost $300k. Maybe the novel application is prostate cancer?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704029304575525...
Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#3Seems to good to be true, retreatment only needed in 10% of cases with much less side effects too.
Is this still in clinical trials?
Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#4Is there anything about this that is specific to the prostate? Wouldn't this exact same treatment work on other accessible tumors, for example breast or skin?
Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#5Is there anything about this that is specific to the prostate? Wouldn't this exact same treatment work on other accessible tumors, for example breast or skin?
I read its effective at treating lung and liver cancers too.
Early diagnosis is key to survival.
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#6Sample size n=1, but my dad was on the research or clinical trial of this exact treatment in Sydney, it worked for his prostate cancer, he's still clear from PSA tests (and possibly had biopsy also. No side effects.
Previously he'd had the radioactive beads treatment which failed, the only other option was removal. Both these options have potentially unpleasant side effects.
Happy to ask him questions if anyone wants to know more
Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#7First time it really hits home how large the risk is.
1/6 is a rather large risk.
Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#8First time it really hits home how large the risk is. 1/6 is a rather large risk.
It's more likely that you die with prostate cancer than because of prostate cancer.
Yes, cancer is never good but for most men prostate cancer develops late and is usually growing very slowly and doesn't spread.
Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#9First time it really hits home how large the risk is. 1/6 is a rather large risk.
It's more likely that you die with prostate cancer than because of prostate cancer. Yes, cancer is never good but for most men prostate cancer develops late and is usually growing very slowly and doesn't spread.
In medical school, one of my mother's classes had an exercise one day which took this form:
Here are a bunch of slides of prostate samples. Find the cancerous one.
This led to the teacher getting so many questions about whether the slide someone was currently looking at was the cancerous one that he was forced to interrupt the class to make this more general announcement:
There's a bit of cancer in everyone's prostate. Find the slide with obvious cancer.
Re: Prostate cancer could be treated by destroying tumors with electric currents
#10Is there anything about this that is specific to the prostate? Wouldn't this exact same treatment work on other accessible tumors, for example breast or skin?
My father had Nanoknife for pancreatic cancer; it wasn't a cure, but it reduced the tumour enough to buy him another couple of years.