Focused Ultrasound and Cryoabation in Prostate Cancer: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 288
Special Issue Editors
Interests: prostate cancer; Ultrasound
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men in developed countries. Over the past twenty years, there has been a trend towards the earlier diagnosis of PCa. Men are identified at an earlier stage with smaller unifocal or unilateral lesions that occupy only 5–10% of the prostate gland.
Active surveillance is usually the first choice for low-risk prostate cancers. However, some patients do not accept living with cancer without treatment. Radical prostatectomy, external beam radiotherapy or brachytherapy are recognized methods of treating PCa. However, they are associated with the risk of serious functional complications, such as urinary incontinence, erectile dysfunction or post-irradiation changes in the adjacent organs.
Focal therapy (FT) could become a new treatment for men with localised PCa. It involves treating the tumor, while leaving the rest of the prostate and surrounding tissue intact. Most focal therapies are achieved with thermal ablative technologies. Currently, they are only available in specialist centres or as part of a clinical trial. The guidelines of the European Association of Urology still present FT as an experimental procedure. However, increasing numbers of male patients, as well as urologists, are interested in this therapy. It could have the potential to cure PCA, while sparing patients from the side effects of radical treatment.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the current developments and future perspectives of the two most commonly used types of FT, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and cryoablation.
Dr. Andrzej Lewicki
Prof. Dr. Jakub Dobruch
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- prostate cancer
- focal theraphy
- HIFU
- cryoablation
- ablative treatment
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