| Will Focal Therapy Become a Standard of Care For Men with Localised Prostate Cancer?
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The Current treatment choice for mend with localised prostate cancer lies between active surveillance and radical therapy. Radical therapy is associated with considerable adverse effects (e.g. incontinence, impotence, rectal problems), because it treats the whole gland, and can damage surrounding structures.
Focal Therapy is a new concept whereby only the tumor focus and a margin of normal tissue are treated.
Will focal therapy become a standard of care for men with localized prostate cancer?
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Hashim Uddin Ahmed, Doug Pendse, Rowland Illing, Clare Allen,
Jan HP van der Meulen and Mark Emberton
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