Making the Decision to Have C... Health Article

Right now most doctors don’t recommend cryotherapy as the first choice for treatment. This treatment is more difficult if you’ve already had a TURP procedure. Your doctor may suggest it as a salvage therapy. That means it is used after another treatment that hasn’t worked. Cryotherapy might be your best option if any of these is true for you.

• Your prostate cancer has not responded to external radiation (EBRT).

• Your prostate cancer has not responded to seed therapy.

• Your Gleason score is less than 8.