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Great thread folks, thanks. I've seen several trials using Focal Laser Ablation (FLA) so maybe you don't have to wait for Medicare?
Search for NCT05027477
However, these seem to be localized (~3 cores) & not seeing any for proctectomy.
Waiting w/cancer is SUCH a risky proposition - the greatest country in the world & we have to choose between finances and SOTA treatment.
..but I digress.
On a side note - I am curious there doesn't seem to be any trials using AI to confirm pathology. I have read several reports where AI had a much higher success-rate at detecting cancer than humans.
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@jrobitai, I noticed that you wished to post a URL to a clinical trial with your post. You will be able to add URLs to your posts in a few days. There is a brief period where new members can't post links. We do this to deter spammers and keep the community safe.
Please allow me to post it for you:
- A Comparison of TULSA Procedure vs. Radical Prostatectomy in Participants With Localized Prostate Cancer (CAPTAIN) https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05027477
Good question about the use of AI to confirm pathology. Mayo Clinic is conducting several studies involving AI and diagnosis and monitoring.
Here's the search results of the keyword AI in Mayo Clinic's clinical trials database:
https://www.mayo.edu/research/clinical-trials/search-results?keyword=AI&studySiteStatusesGrouped=Open/Status%20Unknown
It is certainly an area of great interest.
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So in a clinical trial, you may still have to pay outside hospital charges for standard stuff. Sometimes in a clinical trial that the government pays for completely, like at NIH where I used to work, they pay for everything. Or a company might pay (some perhaps) as they promote eventually use of their instrument in papers. But often times you pay a fee at Mayo (for example) or Yale or where-ever, and after procedure is done. I was in the Mayo clinical trial for FLA but this years biopsy made me in-eligible to be in the trial anymore since I have more than one lesion now, but at Mayo you still would need to pay for the FLA procedure itself.