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Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Cryotherapy for kidney and prostate cancer

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"Cryotherapy was the first energy source that we were able to ablate tissues with in either the kidney or prostate and understand what that ablation would do," says J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS.

Urology Times® is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022. To mark the occasion, we are highlighting 50 of the top innovations and developments that have transformed the field of urology over the past 50 years. In this installment, J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS, discusses the development of cryotherapy for the treatment of kidney and prostate cancers. Jones is president and CEO of Inova Health System.

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