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Right now most doctors don’t recommend cryotherapy as the first choice for treatment. This treatment is more difficult if you’ve already had a TURP procedure. Your doctor may suggest it as a salvage therapy. That means it is used after another treatment that hasn’t worked. Cryotherapy might be your best option if any of these is true for you.
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Your prostate cancer has not responded to external radiation (EBRT).
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Your prostate cancer has not responded to seed therapy.
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Your Gleason score is less than 8.