Jonathan Wilhoite Blog: A Medical Innovation: Laser Treatment For Prostate Cancer

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

A Medical Innovation: Laser Treatment For Prostate Cancer

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The significance of this kind of therapy has been elaborated by Professor Mark Emberton explains on Radio 4’s Today. The surgeons deemed the new treatment as truly transformative. This was tested across Europe. It uses lasers and a drug that’s made from deep sea bacteria which kills of tumours. The best part: it doesn’t have severe side effects.

BBC.com reports that the trial was conducted on 413 men. The response was quite positive. Nearly half of them exhibited no trace of harmful CA cells. The study was released in The Lancet Oncology.

Prostate Cancer Laser Treatment ‘Truly Transformative’

Lifelong impotence and incontinence are often the price of treating prostate cancer with surgery or radiotherapy. Up to nine-in-10 patients develop erectile problems and up to a fifth struggle to control their bladders. Read more…

EN Gadget explains that current therapies are usually associated with aggressive side effects like impotence and urinary incontinence. Those who participated in the trial no longer experience side effects after two years.

The term used for the therapy is “vascular targeted photodynamic therapy (VPT).” This project was developed by scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and private company STEBA Biotech. The process of administering treatment gets pretty creative

Prostate Cancer Laser Treatment Cures Half Of Trial Subjects

To top it off, unlike with current, aggressive therapies that can cause impotence and urinary incontinence, most of the subjects were free of side effects after two years. Read more…

The drug that’s prominently used in the procedure is from a certain bacteria found in near total darkness on the ocean floor. Get this: it becomes toxic only when exposed to light. This is quite intense.

Ten fiber optic lasers are introduced into the prostate. If you switch this one, the laser activates the drug which eventually kills the cancer cells without harming the prostate.

Professor Mark Emberton, initiated the strategy at University College London. He says that this is a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer. The possibility of using the treatment can shift from prostate to breast cancer.

Prostate Cancer Treatment Called ‘Transformative

Many prostate cancer patients who have surgery or radiation therapy have lifelong impotence and urinary incontinence. But sexual and urination problems lasted no longer than three months among patients who had the new therapy, according to the study in The Lancet Oncology. Read more…

This breakthrough changes the field of cancer therapy. It is something that we should look forward to. The results are quite promising, and hopefully, they’ll be able to do something about making this available for the public.

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