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Publication Highlights the Treatment's 'Low Rates of Morbidity'

IRVINE, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Endocare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENDO), an innovative medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive technologies used by urologists and interventional radiologists for tissue and tumor ablation, announced today that focal cryoablation was highlighted as having "low morbidity" in the July issue of Urology Times. Focal cryoablation is a minimally-invasive method of freezing and destroying only the cancerous portion of the prostate gland while leaving the healthy tissue and the nerves intact, resulting in low overall morbidity and a high rate of sexual potency. Focal cryoablation represents an important new option for prostate cancer patients who have isolated, localized disease.

Noting the data presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Orlando, the July issue of Urology Times captured and summarized key take-home messages in 27 topic areas including "localized prostate cancer." The publication highlighted "low rates of morbidity" that result from focal cryoablation.

Focal cryoablation outcomes reported on at the AUA's annual meeting included the first multi-center study of focal, or partial gland, cryoablation for 341 prostate cancer patients. The study demonstrated that more than half of the patients who were potent before the treatment were again potent after six months, and more than 74 percent resumed potency within 36 months. Patients in this study are part of the Cryo On-Line Database (COLD) Registry which contains records for more than 5,000 cryoablation procedures from 48 physicians. This latest focal cryoablation study, the largest published t
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