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Focal therapy: A treatment option for localised prostate cancer?

Aisling Glynn ()
Elizabeth Forde ()
Laure Marignol ()

Abstract


Therapeutic options for localised prostate cancer (PCa) include active surveillance or radical whole-gland therapy. Men with localised PCa and the physicians who advise them are posed with a difficult therapeutic dilemma: which one? The former requires intensive surveillance causing possible psychological distress. The latter maximises chance of cure but with near certainty of genitourinary toxicity. Focal therapy (FT) is a technique by which only the known disease is targeted while preserving normal tissue. Early reports of FT outcomes are encouraging; however apprehension still exists over its standardised use in localised PCa. This review discusses the evidence regarding the oncologic and functional outcomes of focal therapies for localised prostate cancer.

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prostate cancer, focal therapy,

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