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Tulsa Pro - my initial treatment experience

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Jun 9 8:54am | Replies (74)

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@paulcalif

I watched a long presentation on the Tulsa procedure today. I had be leaning towards FLA but since that's only focal, I'm having 2nd thoughts. The FLA folks say that if you need additional treatments, that's no problem other than having to pay for it again. Without selling some real estate, I can only afford a single FLA or Tulsa treatment. With Tulsa they can ablate the entire prostate plus a small margine. I assume if my cancer is confined to my prostate (as my Petsan shows) then the odds of it not coming back after total ablation are pretty good. Also, if I do only focal, what's to keep another lesion from forming? I read in one study that 40% of focal fla patients needed a follow procedure. I'm currently waiting for a couple of Tulsa providers to get in touch with me.

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Did you look into Proton therapy? (I have no experience myself. I am just a ramdom person asking a question.) I heard Medicare pays for Proton. There are 2 places you might be able to reach: Loma Linda University, and UC San Diego.

I would submit that total prostate treatment using Tulsa would be excessive unless you have multi-focal disease on both sides of the prostate, but if it's confined to one side, then total ablation should not be a consideration.