Keck Medicine of USC is conducting a clinical trial that explores using steam as a potential alternative to surgery or radiation to target and destroy cancer cells in select prostate cancer patients. Steam eliminates wrinkles and germs, but can it destroy cancer cells too? Keck Medicine of USC
Interesting. What’s the advantage of steam over proton therapy? Or, since this uses a catheter in the urethra, would an optical fiber with laser not be more precise in energy delivery?
Proton therapy is pricey and often requires multiple treatments (at a hospital with a proton gun), and the article makes it sound like the steam delivers heat in a beneficial way, tho as you note they don’t directly compare to any kind of laser therapy.