Other advantages to cryotherapy treatment include:
If needed, cryotherapy can be followed with other conventional therapies, such as radiation therapy or surgery.
One recent study followed men with prostate cancer for a period of 10 years. In that study, researchers concluded that cryotherapy might be as effective as radiation and other common treatments for prostate cancer. Cryotherapy, though, wasn't directly tested against those more established treatments.
- Less blood loss
- Shorter hospital stay (usually one or two nights)
- Shorter recovery period
- Much less swelling and pain than with standard surgery for prostate cancer