Leading Academic Institutions Collaborate On 800-patient Study Of Effectiveness Of Cryoablation For Men With Recurrent Prostate

Endocare, Inc., an innovative medical device company providing minimally invasive technologies for tissue and tumor ablation, announced that a group of the nation's leading academic institutions are collaborating on an 800-patient, multi-center, prospective study of the effectiveness of cryoablation on men whose prostate cancer has recurred after radiation therapy. The study, called SCORE (Salvage Cryotherapy Registry Evaluation) is being led by E. David Crawford, M.D., and Al Barqawi, M.D., both of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, and physicians from up to 25 leading medical institutions, including M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Loma Linda University, Washington University, the University of Tennessee and Maimonides Medical Center,...