UH to offer alternative prostate cancer biopsy method
UH to offer alternative prostate cancer biopsy method
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University Hospitals Urology Institute is using a new technique to diagnose prostate cancer through a method that allows the urologist to obtain a prostate biopsy with a lower risk of introducing bacteria than the traditional method, according to a news release.
A transrectal ultrasound guided method has been used for the past 30 years.
The new technique, called the PrecisionPoint Transperineal Access System (PPTAS) in conjunction with MRI guided fusion technology, optimizes cancer detection and can be used in an office setting under local anesthesia or with sedation, according to the release, which notes it s the first FDA-cleared device allowing free-handed transperineal biopsy of the prostate.
Randomized trial results led to reduction in the use of minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer
In a Correspondence article published in the April 29, 2021 issue of the
New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center, and New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, found a substantial reduction in the use of minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer after publication of the results a major study called the Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical Cancer (LACC) in November 2018.
The earlier study, which compared minimally invasive surgery with open abdominal radical hysterectomy in patients with early-stage cervical cancer, found that minimally invasive surgery was associated with worse disease-free and overall survival than open surgery. As a result of that study and other related studies, many guidelines recommended that surgeons use open surgery rather than minimally invasive surgery.
CLEVELAND - In a Correspondence article published in the April 29, 2021 issue of the
New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center, and New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, found a substantial reduction in the use of minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer after publication of the results a major study called the Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical Cancer (LACC) in November 2018.
The earlier study, which compared minimally invasive surgery with open abdominal radical hysterectomy in patients with early-stage cervical cancer, found that minimally invasive surgery was associated with worse disease-free and overall survival than open surgery. As a result of that study and other related studies, many guidelines recommended that surgeons use open surgery rather than minimally invasive surgery.
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