21. The rate of impotence experienced with targeted cryosurgery is similar to that experienced by men who undergo radical prostatectomy. 22. People with a few local lesions can often be treated with local measures such as radiation therapy or cryosurgery . 23. Love sees cryosurgery as a possibility, in which a probe is inserted into the breast to freeze the tumor. 24. Torre treated skin lesions on thousands of patients and determined cryosurgery to be the best method to combat those conditions. 25. But a third method, cryosurgery -- freezing the tumor-- is gaining momentum as a viable option. 26. Coincidentally, the ruling came at a time when cryosurgery was growing as a primary rather than a salvage therapy. 27. For this reason, Gould advocates cryosurgery -- specifically total cryoablation-- for even the more extreme cases. 28. At that point, cryosurgery was used mainly as a salvage therapy for men whose cancer had not responded to radiation. 29. As a result, the Health Care Financing Administration approved targeted cryosurgery for Medicare coverage as of July 1, 1999. 30. Blisters may form as a result of cryosurgery , but these usually scab over and peel away within a few days.
