Imperial College London investigators compared focal therapy with prostate removal surgery for men with prostate cancer that ...
Doctors say active monitoring, hormone therapy and newer focal treatments are reshaping care decisions for men.
A trial evaluated the short-term oncologic efficacy of cooled focal therapy ablation using the ProFocal device in men with localized, intermediate-risk prostate cancer.
A novel, cooled laser focal therapy (cLFT) exhibits high treatment success for localized prostate cancer (PCa), according to a study published online Jan. 28 in ...
Prostate cancers are either low-grade, low-risk forms that may be monitored but otherwise untreated, or they’re serious enough to require surgery and radiation. Monitoring can cause patients anxiety.
Step by step, little by little, we are learning how to act on this new staging information,’ one investigator says.
Prostate cancer patients may soon have a new option to treat their disease: laser heat. UCLA researchers have found that focal laser ablation - the precise application of heat via laser to a tumor - ...
Because treatment of the whole prostate can lead to long-term side effects in patients with prostate cancer, interest in minimally invasive, focal treatment options has been growing for certain ...
Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside prostate cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.
For men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), transurethral Holmium Laser of the Prostate (HoLEP) with Double-n Technology shows promise for improving urinary symptoms while better preserving ...
Two types of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) had different effects on coronary atherosclerosis in a small randomized trial ...