Endocare Announces That National Cancer Institute to Sponsor Study Comparing Cryoablation to Radiation Therapy for Pain Relief in Bone Cancer Patients

Cryoablation And Radiation Effectiveness (CARE) for Bone Pain to Measure Quality of Life, Complication Rates in Prospective, Randomized, Multi-Center Study IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Endocare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENDO ), an innovative medical devi...

Medicare Increases 2008 Hospital Reimbursement Rates for Cryoablation Treatments of Prostate Cancer

Hospital Outpatient Rates Increase Nearly 17 Percent; Ambulatory Surgical Centers Increase 364 Percent IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Endocare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENDO ), an innovative medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive tec...

New Study Data Published in British Journal of Urology Demonstrates Cryoablation Effective for Kidney Cancer

78 Patients Take Part in Five-Year, Retrospective University of Wisconsin Study IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Endocare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENDO ), an innovative medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive technologies u...

Medicare Sets Physician Payment Rate for Percutaneous Kidney Cryoablation

New Clinical CPT Code Created for Minimally Invasive Procedure to Treat Kidney Tumors IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Endocare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENDO ), an innovative medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive technologies...

ATS Medical Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results

...lion. Revenue from the Company's ATS CryoMaze(TM) cryoablation products for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias ....6% for heart valve therapy products and 10.0% for cryoablation products. Gross profit margin for the secon...09. Surgical Ablation cryoablation revenues of $4.7 million in the second quarter of ...

Breast CT Scanner Could Improve Cancer Screen Comfort

..., he added. Next, Boone hopes to use the breast CT scanner to guide interventional procedures such as a robotic biopsy, radiofrequency ablation and cryoablation to treat breast cancer. With the breast CT scanner, a woman lies on her stomach, face down on the table while the breast drops through a hole in th...

ATS Medical to Participate at Upcoming Investor Conferences

... an alternative to replacement. Continuing ATS Medical's focus on serving the cardiac surgery community are the ATS CryoMaze(TM) products for surgical cryoablation of cardiac arrhythmias. ATS CryoMaze(TM) products are used by surgeons to treat patients suffering from cardiac arrhythmias, the largest and fastest g...

ATS Medical Announces Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call

... an alternative to replacement. Continuing ATS Medical's focus on serving the cardiac surgery community are the ATS CryoMaze(TM) products for surgical cryoablation of cardiac arrhythmias. ATS CryoMaze(TM) products are used by surgeons to treat patients suffering from cardiac arrhythmias, the largest and fastest g...

ATS Medical Announces First Use of the New ATS CryoMaze 10-S Probe

...cial use of the new ATS CryoMaze(TM) 10-S Surgical cryoablation Probe for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The cryoablation procedure was performed by Niv Ad, MD, Chief of Ca...ts the current product offering by adding a linear cryoablation probe that is more rigid than the current ATS Cryo...

ATS Medical Announces FDA Clearance and First Implant of New ATS Simulus Semi-Rigid Annuloplasty Band

...he cardiac surgery community are the ATS CryoMaze(TM) products for surgical cryoablation of cardiac arrhythmias. ATS CryoMaze(TM) products are used by surgeons to t...f regulatory approvals, the integration of 3f Therapeutics and the surgical cryoablation business of CryoCath Technologies, Inc., regulatory actions, competition, p...

Cryoablation in Medical Technology

Focal Cryoablation Highlighted in Urology Times Best of AUA Orlando 2008

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 radiol...

Leading Academic Institutions Collaborate on 800-Patient Study of Effectiveness of Cryoablation for Men With Recurrent Prostate Cancer

Cryoablation Offers Second Chance for Patients Whose Cancer Returns after Radiation IRVINE, Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Endocare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENDO ), an innovative medical device company providing minimally invasive technologies for tissue and tumor...

NCI Funded Clinical Trial to Study Treatment of Breast Cancer Using Cryoablation

Sanarus' Visica 2(TM) Treatment System Selected as Exclusive Cryoablation Treatment Technology PLEASANTON, Calif., Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) which just initiated a National Cancer Institute (NCI) funded clinical tri...

Freezing Prostate Cancer Does a Man's Body Good

...cent of the cases. "Our data show that focal cryoablation is as good for prostate cancer control as any othe...e current standard TRUS biopsy. Calling focal cryoablation a "male lumpectomy" reflects the origins of this a...just a portion of the prostate, minimally invasive cryoablation is needed....

Freezing Kidney Cancer: Hot Treatment Should Be New Gold Standard for Destroying Small Tumors

... or smaller. And, this treatment -- interventional cryoablation -- is a viable option for people with larger tumor...th Annual Scientific Meeting. "Interventional cryoablation is as effective as laparoscopic surgery (partial n... current gold standard treatment, and laparoscopic cryoablation surgery for treating renal cell carcinoma," said C...

Cryoablation Is Focus of 17 Clinical Studies at American Urological Association Annual Meeting

...ing Cancer Centers Presenting cryoablation Data IRVINE, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCal...duate educational courses and workshops related to cryoablation were sponsored by the AUA and, for the first time,...ctice statements for primary cryoablation, salvage cryoablation and focal cryoablation. "The positive outcomes...

ATS Medical Announces Initial Clinical Results of Stand-Alone Atrial Fibrillation Procedures Using ATS CryoMaze Product Line

...ults of stand-alone AF ablations using ATS Medical cryoablation products. In the presentation, Dr. Rodriguez descr...orming a complete stand-alone Maze procedure using cryoablation and robotic technique. This technique is facilitat...enters in the United States alone have adopted ATS cryoablation products in stand-alone procedures. Like East Caro...

CryoCor Completes Enrollment of Pivotal Clinical Study for Atrial Fibrillation

...ontinue to see an excellent safety profile for our cryoablation device and expect to file a PMA in late 2008. At t...t, the CryoCor Cardiac Cryoablation System, or the cryoablation System, is designed to treat cardiac arrhythmias t...reme cold, to destroy targeted cardiac tissue. The cryoablation System has been approved in Europe for the treatme...

CryoCor Receives FDA Approval for Right Atrial Flutter

...provided by our system, specifically the fact that cryoablation is a less painful way of ablating right atrial flu...or, said, "The approval of the PMA for the CryoCor cryoablation System for the treatment of right atrial flutter b...d marketing efforts and driving utilization of our cryoablation System. An important element of our strategy is to...

Cryoablation in Medical Products

CryoCor CryoBlator Cryoablation Catheters

Description: The bi-polar CryoCor CryoBlator Series of Cryoablation Catheters combines the safeguard of robust 10F coaxial catheter design with the two-stage cooling system of the CryoCor Cardiac Cryoablation Console to maximize the delivery of cryoenergy to the ablation site. CryoCor's Cryoablation catheters a...
Company:CryoCor, Inc.

THE CRYOCONSOLE

Description:...mperatures. The cryoconsole is controlled through an easy-to-use touch-screen interface. From this interface, the user can choose CryoMapping or cryoablation mode and set the time and temperature for the procedure....
Company:CryoCath Technologies, Inc.

SeedNet™ Cryotherapy System

Description:...ly invasive treatment for prostate and renal cancer. Easy to learn and simple to use, SeedNet provides optimum accuracy, efficiency and control in the cryoablation process. SeedNet is the new generation in cryotherapy for prostate cancer. Ultra-thin needles, exclusive to the SeedNet system, produce iceballs of e...
Company:Oncura

Freezor 5

Description:...pinpoint site precision, minimal tissue disruption, and minimal risk of thrombus and stenosis. Freezor is a flexible, single-use, minimally invasive cryoablation catheter designed to create focal lesions to treat AVNRT, an arrhythmia where procedural precision is of critical importance. Freezor can create tempe...
Company:CryoCath Technologies, Inc.

Freezor 1

Description:...pinpoint site precision, minimal tissue disruption, and minimal risk of thrombus and stenosis. Freezor is a flexible, single-use, minimally invasive cryoablation catheter designed to create focal lesions to treat AVNRT, an arrhythmia where procedural precision is of critical importance. Freezor can create tempe...
Company:CryoCath Technologies, Inc.

Freezor 3

Description:...pinpoint site precision, minimal tissue disruption, and minimal risk of thrombus and stenosis. Freezor is a flexible, single-use, minimally invasive cryoablation catheter designed to create focal lesions to treat AVNRT, an arrhythmia where procedural precision is of critical importance. Freezor can create tempe...
Company:CryoCath Technologies, Inc.

SurgiFrost

Features:... 3.9 mm diameter, 60 mm malleable cryoablation segment shapes to heart structure Ergonomic hand piece with on/off switch is easy for surgeon to hold and control Convenient CryoSurgical Console us...
Company:CryoCath Technologies, Inc.

Cryoablation in Biological News

Freezing prostate cancer does a man's body good

...ercent of the cases. "Our data show that focal cryoablation is as good for prostate cancer control as any othe...the current standard TRUS biopsy. Calling focal cryoablation a "male lumpectomy" reflects the origins of this a...just a portion of the prostate, minimally invasive cryoablation is needed....

Freezing kidney cancer: Hot treatment should be new gold standard for destroying small tumors

...34th Annual Scientific Meeting. "Interventional cryoablation is as effective as laparoscopic surgery (partial n... current gold standard treatment, and laparoscopic cryoablation surgery for treating renal cell carcinoma," said C...hree-year study, we have shown that interventional cryoablation for kidney cancer should be the gold standard or t...

Cryoablation -- A new treatment option for some kidney tumor patients

...t that freezing kidney tumors through percutaneous cryoablation shows promise for patients who are not good candid...ave surgery because of other factors, percutaneous cryoablation may be an option. "This procedure appears to ...equency ablation (RFA) burns away the tumor, while cryoablation freezes it. Mayo Clinic doctors had previous ...

Minimally Invasive Cancer Treatments Highlighted

... treatments provide minimally invasive options for patients who are not good surgical candidates. Study of note: ?A prospective study of MRI-guided cryoablation of 44 renal tumors shows that 96% were successfully ablated and 93% required only one treatment session. MRI monitoring allows for most tumors to be a...

Cryoablation in Biological Technology

ATS Medical Announces Formation of Cryoablation Surgical Advisory Board

MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ATS Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATSI ), manufacturer and marketer of state-of-the-art cardiac surgery products and services, today reported the formation of the ATS Medical Cryoablation Surgical Advisory Board. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/c...

38 Cryoablation Studies, Exhibits Presented at National Radiological Society Meeting

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 2 /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 physicians fr...

Best Practices Document on Cryoablation Posted on Website of American Urological Association

IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Endocare, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENDO ), an innovative medical device company focused on the development of minimally invasive technologies for tissue and tumor ablation, announced today that the American Urological Association (AUA) has for the first...

Endocare and Galil Medical Announce Settlement of Litigation

...elops, manufactures and markets innovative products utilizing a proprietary cryoablation platform that incorporates powerful freezing technology and revolutionary 17-gauge cryoablation needle design. The company has offices in Yokneam, Israel; Plymouth Meeting...

ATS Medical Announces Participation in the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons

...he cardiac surgery community are the ATS CryoMaze(TM) products for surgical cryoablation of cardiac arrhythmias. ATS CryoMaze(TM) products are used by surgeons to t...f regulatory approvals, the integration of 3f Therapeutics and the surgical cryoablation business of CryoCath Technologies, Inc., regulatory actions, competition, p...

ATS Medical Provides Update on US Commercialization of Its ATS 3f Aortic Bioprosthesis

...portant factors, including the results of clinical trials, the timing of regulatory approvals, the outcome of pending litigation matters, the surgical cryoablation business of CryoCath Technologies, Inc., regulatory actions, competition, pricing pressures, supplier actions and management of growth. For a discussi...

Cryoablation of Early Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer With MRI Confirmation Shows Promising Clinical Benefits, According to Study Presented at RSNA

...al confirms the effectiveness of ultrasound guided cryoablation to completely eradicate small, unifocal Invasive D... are Markers for the Efficacy of Ultrasound-guided cryoablation of Small Unifocal Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer," ...I to assess the effectiveness of ultrasound guided cryoablation for the local treatment of small, unifocal IDC. ...

Endocare Reports Financial Results for Third Quarter 2008

...sales, as well as the estimated number of domestic cryoablation procedures performed, in the third quarter and the... 2007 2008 2007 Estimated domestic cryoablation procedures 2,263 2,3...elease of the official 'best practice' document on cryoablation for prostate cancer, covering primary, salvage and...

ATS Forcefield Anti-platelet Technology Continues to Demonstrate Positive Results

...cluding the results of clinical trials, the timing of regulatory approvals, the outcome of pending litigation matters, the integration of the surgical cryoablation business of CryoCath Technologies, Inc., regulatory actions, competition, pricing pressures, supplier actions and management of growth. For a discussi...

Boston Scientific Completes Acquisition of CryoCor

...t, the CryoCor Cardiac Cryoablation System, or the cryoablation System, is designed to treat cardiac arrhythmias t...reme cold, to destroy targeted cardiac tissue. The cryoablation System has been approved in Europe for the treatme...l trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the cryoablation System for the treatment of atrial fibrillation an...