ABSTRACT
Prostate cryosurgery is unique among the currently available potentially curative treatments for clinically localized prostate cancer. It is minimally invasive in a way similar to prostate brachytherapy, but without the use of radiation. Under ideal circumstances, it has an essentially ablative result, but without an incision. While prostate cryosurgery has a wide potential application, it has shown particular promise in the management of prostate cancer patients whose features don’t fit neatly into the desirable criteria for the other therapies, for example high-risk disease and radiation failure. Prostate cryosurgery can be a valuable tool in the treatment armamentarium of the urologist who is well versed in its use.
