title: [Focal therapy in prostate cancer: rationale, results and perspectives].
abstract: Focal therapy is a novel treatment strategy in prostate cancer aiming to treat only the area of the gland harbouring clinically significant disease. The overall objective is to maintain the oncological benefit of active treatment while minimising treatment-related morbidity. Leading centres are currently evaluating various minimally invasive technologies in a rigorous manner. Oncological and functional results in mid-term are encouraging with low rate of urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction. However, the oncological outcome needs to be evaluated in the long-term in the light of the prolonged natural history of the disease.
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valerio
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Benamran
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tawadros
authors.forename: Yannick
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cerantola
authors.forename: Jean-yves
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Meuwly
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lutchmaya-Flick
authors.forename: Benoît
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lhermitte
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wirth
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Iselin
authors.forename: Patrice
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jichlinski
mesh_terms: D003452:Cryosurgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018579:Patient Selection; D010789:Phototherapy; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000379:methods*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D013557:Switzerland / Q000453:epidemiology