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    So when he heard about Dr Emberton’s trials he signed up without hesitation. "It has been absolutely fantastic ... I was in and out, and back at work the following day with no side effects to speak of. It was so straightforward and easy for both the patient and for the NHS as there’s no follow-up drugs needed. Once you’re done, you’re done." Because it is in such early stages of research some questions do remain. Full Article at Times Online
    It has been absolutely fantastic ... I was in and out, and back at work the following day with no side effects to speak of. It was so straightforward and easy for both the patient and for the NHS as there’s no follow-up drugs needed. Once you’re done, you’re done.
    Alan Johnson – Alan Johnson SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
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Shining a light on prostate cancer
  1. Nobody knew what would happen if you preserved the healthy prostate tissue
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  2. A lot of these investigations have been patient driven
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  3. With HIFU the sound waves are concentrated to an area roughly the size of a grain of rice ... That area gets heated to about 80-90C and that’s enough to kill the cells in that area only. You can kill as little or as much tissue as you want without damaging anything else.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  4. Our results did cause a bit of a stir ... We were surprised by how quickly the function returned after treatment. We never expected such a quick recovery.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  5. While this treatment holds great promise, it is new and we do not know the long-term results yet ... But I am very hopeful. It’s a little like when it was proposed that women didn’t need a mastectomy for breast cancer. At the time there was outrage. I think the same story will hold true for prostate can...
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  6. I wasn’t ready to be losing my sexual function
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  7. There have been some informal studies which suggested you could get good results but this was the first prospective, externally audited trial in the world.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  8. Patients are saying to us, ‘Why can’t you investigate in the traditional way and just treat the cancer? If I had colon cancer you wouldn’t remove the whole colon, would you?’ I had one patient the other day who was very angry about the way we treat prostate cancer. He couldn’t make sense of it at all.
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago
  9. The prostate is the only organ that we insist on removing totally when we find cancer within it ... The average prostate cancer is 2ml in volume, while the prostate is 35ml in volume. So when you treat someone by removing the whole prostate you are actually removing something that is 5 per cent cancer c...
    SOURCE: Times Online 4 weeks ago

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