NanoKnife is a pioneering treatment for prostate cancer — the first nerve sparing prostate cancer treatment
Unlike traditional prostate cancer treatments, NanoKnife kills the prostate cancer cells instead of removing or irradiating the entire prostate. It’s a one time two hour procedure, at most. Not weeks. Not months. You’re clear in days, with no side effects… no incontinence, no impotence.*
Talk to us here at Vitus and you’re talking to the world’s leading experts in using NanoKnife for treating prostate cancer, with over 850 men treated successfully.
*No incontinence in any of the patients we have treated with NanoKnife. No impotence in 90-95%.
Elevated PSA level?
PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) is a protein produced in the prostate gland. An elevated PSA level can be an indicator of prostate cancer, but is never in itself a diagnosis. Too often, an elevated PSA level can lead to an unnecessary biopsy.
Recently diagnosed?
If you’ve been diagnosed with prostate cancer based on an elevated PSA level, what you now need most of all is clarity. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is the most effective way to find out if you actually have prostate cancer, with a detection rate of 85-100%.
What is prostate cancer?
The prostate is a gland in men that produces a fluid that makes up about 30% of semen. It is found below the bladder, in front of the rectum. Prostate cancer develops when cells in a man’s prostate gland start to grow uncontrollably. Most, but not all, prostate cancers grow slowly.
Why NanoKnife?
NanoKnife is a revolution in prostate cancer treatment, using IRE (Irreversible Electroporation) technology to destroy cancer cells with ultra-fast exposure to a powerful electric current that doesn’t touch surrounding tissue, in a minimally-invasive, pain-free way.
IRE with NanoKnife
The NanoKnife IRE Soft Tissue Ablation System uses IRE (Irreversible Electroporation) to destroy cancer cells without touching important areas nerves, the urinary sphincter, the intestinal wall, veins and arteries — in and around the prostate. So the impotence and incontinence that can happen with traditional treatments can usually be avoided with NanoKnife.
The IRE technology we use in NanoKnife is based on extremely fast, extremely strong bursts of electric current that make it the ideal new approach to prostate cancer treatment.
We have successfully treated over 850 people at our Vitus Prostate Center in Offenbach am Main, near Frankfurt, in Germany.
Prof. Dr. Michael K. Stehling talks about IRE with NanoKnife.
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