Hospital offers new cancer treatment technique.

• Position: Health & Medicine - Alaska Regional Hospital; cryosurgery for prostate cancer - Brief Article

Alaska Regional Hospital is among the first in the nation to offer targeted cryoablation of the prostate. Cryosurgery, a cancer treatment technique that uses extreme cold to destroy cancer cells, was approved by Medicare in 1999 as a primary treatment and is a viable option for cancer patients who have failed radiation.

While cryosurgery has been used as a treatment for many years, physicians recently discovered its particular efficacy on cancer confined to the prostate gland.

Alaska Regional Hospital officials said theirs is the only hospital in Alaska to offer this treatment and the only site to offer...