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I encounter many prostate patient’s in essence just scared of Surgery or Radiation even though it’s most appropriate and read about all the new focal treatments that don’t carry the side effects and are under study in clinical trials and considered investigational and the patients want those and many are getting them and only delaying what they actually needed radiation or surgery. Then when doctors are recommending surgery or radiation they say they are pushing more expensive treatments. They are not pushing, and in many cases the patients are pushing doctors for alternatives to surgery or radiation and they may be cheaper, but it had nothing to do with the cost in their recommendation. If the medical community was all about pushing the expensive treatments they would have never come up with Active Surveillance which eliminated thousands and thousands of radiation and surgery for gleason 6.