Prostate cancer: new treatments for localized tumours-what matters first?
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) represents a fairly new treatment option for focal therapy of prostate cancer. However, studies evaluating its efficacy have not provided strong data to support the use of HIFU in the majority of patients. Thus, high-profile studies investigating feasibility of the modality in terms of adverse effects seem premature.
Department of Urology, Deaconesses-Croix St Simon Medical Center, 12-18 rue du Sergent Bauchat, 75102 Paris, France. bguillonneau@hopital-dcss.org.
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D057086:High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome