Iranian Clinics Using Water Vapor to Treat Prostatic Hyperplasia

“Using water vapor is a new technique that is used in the world and Iran to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia,” Mohammad Hadi Radfar, a urologist and a fellow in endourology and laparoscopy and a faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University, told ANA.

“This method can be called a new and special technology that is based on water vapor. Of course, it cannot be said that with the introduction of this method, older treatment methods are no longer applicable,” he added.

In this method, an endoscopic device that has very small needles with it enters the urethra and prostate. These needles inject a small volume of water vapor into the prostate and cause the swollen and enlarged parts to disappear,” Radfar said.

In a relevant development in 2023, researchers at University of Tehran's Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Center had also designed and manufactured a new biosensor for prostate cancer detection.

The design and manufacturing of the microfluidic optical biosensor to detect prostate cancer was done as a result of the findings of the PhD thesis done by Mona Soroush under the supervision of Hedayatullah Ghorchian, a professor at the UT Department of Biophysics.

“Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and its timely diagnosis is of great importance,” Ghorchian sad. 

“This biosensor is a tool to identify the concentration of a biological molecule in the serum of patients with prostate cancer," he added.

“Nanotechnologies, especially gold nanoparticles, have been used in the biosensor made by the researchers at the Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Center,” Ghorchian went on to say.

“In this research, gold nanoparticles were made and then antibody molecules were attached to the nanoparticles by chemical methods. As a result of the connection of the antibody molecule with the cancer marker molecule, a light message is created that can be received by the optical receiver,” Ghorchian said.

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