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PSA numbers: Questions about new treatments
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 1, 2020 | Replies (45)Comment receiving replies
Hello and you stony I have written at the site a while back when I started looking for answers about my newly developed prostate cancer diagnosis I had a MRI of my prostate done last week the results showed that I had to 1 1/2 cm lesion on both sides of my prostate gland
My first question when I joined this site was are there any new treatments any new ways of going in and not killing the prostate completely it seems to me that with all our medical technology why don’t they just go in and take out those lesions ?
they know the size of them And where they are exactly are because of the MRI.
Are there any new doctors that do that is there somebody out there that can help me with this question because I don’t want to lose my prostate next step the telling me is another biopsy or I should go to radiation I don’t want to radiation
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Do a google search on HIFU and TULSA-PRO, both can be used as focal therapy for prostate cancer. I had the HIFU done in Nashville, TN 1 year ago and am very happy with results. No side effects at all. HIFU was FDA approved in 2015 and TULSA-PRO just recently approved in the USA.
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As far as leaving the prostate in, there is freezing Cryotherapy which I'm not familiar with. ALso there is a relatively newer one called Focal Laser Ablation where they heat treat the tumors but it is in trials so technically not totally medically accepted yet. I've had a biopsy which gave me a gleason 7 but am going to the Mayo Clinic in January to have a high resolution MRI and they will tell me what procedures they think are medically relevant for me, including whether I qualify for the trial or not. Once I know that I will be choosing between the trial or surgery. They are doing the trials all over the country, at hospitals and clinics and university facilities. THere is a list of who is doing it. There is a Sperling Institute in Florida that does the heat treatment, and they have testimonials of guys having the procedure done and going out to dinner that night. There is not a ton of info out there on it, so I'm waiting to talk with the Dr who runs the program at Mayo to find out the details...............