In this era of minimally invasive medicine, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) deserves mention as a suitable option for ablative therapy for the treatment of organ-confined prostate cancer, and as a possible alternative to the more widely utilized treatments such as radiation therapy, robotic surgery or cryotherapy.
HIFU is a minimally invasive, outpatient based technology that utilizes highly focused ultrasound energy to destroy a precise and preselected area of tissue. To better...
Prostate cancer can be definitively treated with either the surgical removal of the prostate (radical prostatectomy) or with the use of... Read more »
You havejust undergone aprostate biopsy and, in most cases, you have tolerated the procedure very well. There may have been some blood in... Read more »
After robotic prostate surgery that is performed for cancer, the patient will have a foley catheter (a small drain that is placed in the... Read more »
Two news bulletins that hit the health news scene: (1) Chemotherapy may be a new and viable treatment option for Testicular Seminoma -... Read more »
DURHAM, N.C. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- For decades, ultrasounds have been used to determine the sex, size, and vitality of unborn children. Now,... Read more »
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Radiation TherapyRadiation therapy may be used as an initial treatment for localized prostate cancer. It may also be used as treatment for cancer... Read more »
Several new studies suggest that cholesterol-lowering statins help prevent prostate cancer and reduce the risk of erectile dysfunction. In one study,... Read more »
Young men don't live as long with an advanced prostate cancer diagnosis as older men, a study suggests. An analysis of 318,774 men found that men who... Read more »
Men who eat fatty fish, such as salmon, have a lower risk of developing advanced prostate cancer, particularly among men who are genetically... Read more »
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