Irreversible electroporation (IRE – NanoKnife)
The first truly nerve-sparing and function-preserving treatment for prostate cancer
Unlike other treatment methods, NanoKnife directly targets tumor cells and preserves healthy tissue infrastructures in the prostate area.
IRE treatment for prostate cancer usually takes less than two hours, not weeks or months. Just one day after treatment, you can return to the activities you love, pain-free. The nerve-sparing treatment largely* avoids the usual permanent side effects such as incontinence or impotence.
IRE (NanoKnife) is a new technology, especially for use in prostate cancer. According to data to date, IRE is as effective as conventional treatments in treating prostate cancer: radical prostatectomy (surgery) and radiation therapy. Notably, however, NanoKnife treatment keeps all avenues open for future treatment, unlike radical surgery.
Hier in der VITUS Privatklinik finden Sie die führenden Experten für die IRE-Behandlung (NanoKnife-Therapie) bei Prostatakrebs. We have already successfully treated over 1500 men.
* Urinary incontinence, as it is called, is the lack or inability of the body to safely store and self-directly empty the contents of the bladder. This leads to involuntary loss of urine. While there are several possible definitions of incontinence, a long-term study of incontinence after prostatectomy** concludes that a reasonable definition of incontinence is when a patient requires 2 or more pads per day 12 months after prostate surgery.
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Prostate cancer: Cure through surgery?
Do you know the “Number Needed to Treat”?
For prostate cancer, removal of the prostate (radical prostatectomy – RPE) is considered “curative” – curative. So men assume that you are “cured” after the operation. Is that really so? The “Number Needed to Treat – NNT” provides information. It describes the effectiveness of a treatment. For prostate removal, the NNT is151 in most cases. This means that out of 15 operated men, only one (!) man lives longer than men who did not have their prostate removed. The remaining 14 men live exactly the same length of time after RPE as men who were not treated at all. Thus, RPE confers a survival benefit on one in 15 men, and 14 in 15 men experience only the disadvantages of surgery, such as impotence and incontinence, with no survival benefit.
Read this and more in the S3 guideline on prostate cancer from the German Society for Urology 2021 and ask your urologist – or let us advise you on the alternatives to radical prostatectomy
1 Men older than 65 years: NNT = 15; men younger than 65 years: NNT = 7; for low- or intermediate-grade prostate cancer.
2 S3 Guideline Prostate Cancer of the German Society of Urology 2021
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Patient Stories
"Look at the guidelines." Those were the words of my urologist at the time when I asked him about alternatives to prostatectomy, which he recommended to me as virtually no alternative after he had given me, at the age of 49... More
W. from Hannover
Last week was November 2, 2017, All Souls' Day! Exactly 5 years ago, on that very day, I received the diagnosis "prostate cancer" in Vienna, and also immediately the urgent admonition of my urologist but only yes to take the "high road"! What was meant was to have the prostate radicals removed in order to avoid the high risk of metastases "due to my youth" (at that time 46)... More
Michael
In mid-2016, I was successfully treated for a prostate carcinoma at the Prostate Center Offenbach / Main, using IRE, without any side effects. I had decided on this new treatment method after my previous urologist in Berlin had advised me to have my prostate radically removed, but I was not particularly happy with this "solution"... More
A patient from Berlin
Overall, I can only say that from the first telephone inquiry at the Prostate Center, through all examinations and treatment steps, to the follow-up, every step was well explained, the care was extraordinarily professional and at the same time humanly very empathetic. After all, this disease is also psychologically difficult for a man to deal with... More
Michael Kirchsteiger
IRE explained in detail
At the VITUS PRIVATKLINIK, we provide you with comprehensive information about all treatment options for prostate cancer and also inform you about possible alternatives.
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