Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer

[摘要] Although it is a significant health threat and cause of mortality, newly diagnosed prostate cancer has undergone a stage migration, with more and more small volume tumors diagnosed at presentation than ever before.1 Despite great advances in techniques for prostatectomy and radiotherapy, there remains a risk of morbidity from techniques designed to ablate cancer from the entire gland. Recently, patients have been offered ablative therapies targeted to focal lesions within the prostate, leaving much of the gland untreated and minimizing the side effects from treatment. However, there is very little documentation of the long-term oncologic outcomes after such therapy. Two recent articles in the literature address some of the issues involved with focal therapy of prostate cancer.

[学科分类] 基础医学