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Recent Proton Experience?

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Sep 1, 2025 | Replies (23)

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These days, if there’s concern “… of the location of the tumor” such that “a gel spacer could not be used…”, the goto is BioProtect. (FDA-approved in 2023.)

As this paper states, “…if you're worried about microscopic extracapsular extension being displaced through the liquid of the spacer,…..the likelihood of spreading extracapsular cells is virtually nil.”
> https://www.urotoday.com/video-lectures/lugpa-2024/video/3006-symmetry-visibility-and-control-the-advantages-of-the-bioprotect-balloon-in-prostate-cancer-treatment-edward-soffen.html

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Well, it’s done now but I guess my RO isn’t up on the research. And that was the problem, a small ECE, although I don’t know if it was microscopic. But I think it was also the actual location of the tumor also.