Because treatment of the whole prostate can lead to long-term side effects in patients with prostate cancer, interest in minimally invasive, focal treatment options has been growing for certain ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Laser surgery in combination with cryoablation, the application of extreme cold to destroy diseased tissue, is a suitable alternative to radiation treatment for early-stage ...

Surgeons rely on 200-year-old technology when removing cancer--sight and touch--to determine how much to remove and what to leave alone. Laser technology pioneered at Florida Atlantic University has ...

A surgeon at Miami-based Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is the first in the U.S. to use a blue laser to treat early glottic cancer, a common type of laryngeal cancer. David Rosow, MD, an ...

Cancer diagnoses traditionally require invasive or labor-intensive procedures such as tissue biopsies. Researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) have now reported on a method ...

Creating beams of accelerated electrons from the action of focused lasers is a promising route to using the beams in multiple applications, although the experimental set-ups needed have been complex ...