Outrage #1 That men continue to be deceived about and railroaded into unnecessary treatments for the so-called Gleason 6 (3+3) prostate “cancer” has NO hallmarks of a cancer when on both clinical and molecular biology grounds it behaves as noncancerous, has no spreading potential and is not a health-risk. Only some high-grade prostate cancers are […]
Archives for November 2010
Prostate Cancer, is your cancer localized?
There are four recognized definitive treatment options currently offered for localized prostate cancer,HIFU, cryoablation, radiation and robotic surgery. The best treatment outcomes after any one of these options is in men that have only truly localized prostate cancer, or cancer localized to the prostate and not outside the prostate. The survival benefits for localized prostate […]
MICRO-FOCAL PROSTATE CANCER, does it need treatment?
A prostate needle biopsy result indicating a 5% or less of a Gleason 6 prostate cancer in one needle core only is termed a micro-focal prostate cancer. The diagnosis MAY be accurate after a standard 12 core needle biopsy and represent a very small volume of prosta te cancer BUT it may also represent a […]
THE POWERFUL BENEFITS OF HIFU FOR PROSTATE CANCER
When reviewing the treatment options for LOCALIZED prostate cancer you should study the complications associated with these individual treatment options. Especially so since the SURVIVAL BENEFITS of the four standard treatment options, HIFU, cryoablation,radiation and surgery are SIMILAR but the incidence of their complications are very different and these COMPLICATIONS affect not only the patient […]