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 ...

A novel cooled laser focal therapy device demonstrates 84% treatment success for localized prostate cancer at 3 months, with only 12% reporting erectile dysfunction and minimal impact on urinary ...

LAS VEGAS -- Focused ultrasound ablation for prostate cancer proved at least equivalent to radical prostatectomy for failure-free survival, according to a randomized trial reported here. After 3 years ...

Investigators who conducted 2 clinical trials concluded that focal therapy is not inferior to radical prostatectomy with respect to treatment failure. Focal therapy such as high-intensity focused ...

Use of the Prostatype P-score to predict adverse pathology (AP) at radical prostatectomy (RP). This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2024 ASCO Genitourinary Cancers Symposium. This abstract does ...

EDAP TMS SA announced the positive results of its Focal Ablation Versus Radical Prostatectomy (FARP) Study at the AUA Annual Meeting on April 27, 2025. The trial achieved its primary goal, ...

A single institution study finds that more than half of men undergoing focal cryoablation remain free of salvage therapy, metastasis, and death at 10 years. Primary focal cryoablation provides good ...

Localized prostate cancer treatments include radical prostatectomy and focal therapy, with the latter targeting only cancerous areas to preserve healthy tissue. Focal therapy allows for active ...

A minimally invasive targeted treatment called salvage focal therapy, which targets just the cancerous area of the prostate, can treat men whose prostate cancer has recurred after radiotherapy with ...

Every year, hundreds of thousands of men receive a prostate cancer diagnosis and immediately face a decision that medical textbooks present as relatively binary: remove the entire prostate gland or ...