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Cryosurgical Ablation for Prostate Cancer

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New Technologies in Urology

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Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in the UK representing 24% of male cancers; the death rate from prostate cancer is significant at 3% of all male deaths.1 In many cases, the disease has a long period of asymptomatic growth before developing into locally advanced or metastatic disease with symptoms.

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  1. Department of Urology Guy’s Hospital, Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Transplantation King’s College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK

    Prokar Dasgupta

  2. Department of Surgery, University College Dublin Mater Misericordiae Hospital, 47 Eccles Street, Dublin, 7, Ireland

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  3. Prostate Centre, 32 Wimpole Street, London, UK, W1G 8GT

    Roger Kirby

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    Inderbir S. Gill

  5. Keck School of Medicine, USA

    Inderbir S. Gill

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Henderson, A., Ismail, M., Davies, J. (2010). Cryosurgical Ablation for Prostate Cancer. In: Dasgupta, P., Fitzpatrick, J., Kirby, R., Gill, I.S. (eds) New Technologies in Urology. New Techniques in Surgery Series, vol 7. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-178-1_12

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