[Treatment of prostatic carcinoma stage C with combined perineal and transurethral cryosurgery (author's transl)]

31 patients with prostatic carcinoma stage C were treated by combined perineal and transurethral cryosurgery. Additionally in all patients a subcapsular orchiectomy was performed. A distinct tumour reduction was found in all patients. Six months after the freezing a palpable tumour could be detected only in 4 cases out of 29. At different time intervalls after the operation 57 biopsies of the prostate were obtained with the tru-cut-needle. In 14 patients no tumour tissue could be detected whereas tumour cells were found in the biopsies of the remaining patients. Combined perineal and transurethral cryosurgery therefore is a palliative form of treatment in prostatic carcinoma.