| 21. | The rate of impotence experienced with targeted cryosurgery is similar to that experienced by men who undergo radical prostatectomy.
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| 22. | People with a few local lesions can often be treated with local measures such as radiation therapy or cryosurgery.
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| 23. | Love sees cryosurgery as a possibility, in which a probe is inserted into the breast to freeze the tumor.
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| 24. | Torre treated skin lesions on thousands of patients and determined cryosurgery to be the best method to combat those conditions.
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| 25. | But a third method, cryosurgery-- freezing the tumor-- is gaining momentum as a viable option.
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| 26. | Coincidentally, the ruling came at a time when cryosurgery was growing as a primary rather than a salvage therapy.
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| 27. | For this reason, Gould advocates cryosurgery-- specifically total cryoablation-- for even the more extreme cases.
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| 28. | At that point, cryosurgery was used mainly as a salvage therapy for men whose cancer had not responded to radiation.
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| 29. | As a result, the Health Care Financing Administration approved targeted cryosurgery for Medicare coverage as of July 1, 1999.
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| 30. | Blisters may form as a result of cryosurgery, but these usually scab over and peel away within a few days.
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