FOCAL THERAPY OF PROSTATE CANCER. AN EMERGING STRATEGY FOR MINIMALLY INVASIVE, STAGED TREATMENT

•State of the art, wide-ranging update on focal therapy
•Coverage of the role of a variety of modern diagnostic and therapeutic technologies
•Written by international experts who are long-term proponents of non-invasive treatment of prostate cancer

This book provides a 2015 state of the art update on the hot topic of focal prostate cancer therapy, which offers a means of preserving the prostate and avoiding major side-effects associated with conventional treatment strategies. In so doing, focal therapy meets the desire of many patients, especially those with low-risk disease, to avoid or postpone radical therapies in order to preserve quality of life. A wide range of aspects are covered, including the role of imaging-guided targeted biopsies, the pros and cons of surveillance in comparison with focal therapy, focal hemiablation and focal salvage therapy, multifocal therapies, focal cryotherapy. The potential role of various new diagnostic technologies as well as specific therapeutic devices as "Focal.One" robotic high-intensity focused ultrasound are explained. The authors are all international experts who are long-term proponents of non-invasive treatment of prostate cancer. "Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer" will be an invaluable source of information for urologists, oncologists, radiation oncologists, and general practitioners, and also for patients wishing to learn more about this new treatment option.

Table of contents (12 chapters)
1.What Will Happen If I Do Nothing? Natural Development of Prostate Cancer Under Consideration of Histopathological Patterns
2.Is Focal Prostate Therapy Just Psychotherapy? Surveillance Versus Focal Therapy: Pros and Cons
3.Definitive Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer Therapy: What’s It and Why Should(nt) We Offer It?
4.How Do We Select Patients Eligible for Focal Therapy? Imaging and Targeted Biopsies: A Basic Prerequisite for Focal Therapy
5. “How to Make TRUS Better”: HistoScanning-Guided Biopsies for Identification of Cancer Within the Prostate
6.Noninvasive Radio Frequency for Early Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer
7.Focal or Multifocal Therapy in Prostate Cancer: New Technologies and Strategies
8.How to Create Evidence for Focal PCa Therapy Research? HIFU Focal Hemiablation as Non-invasive Therapeutic Option
9.Salvage Focal HIFU
10.Focal Cryotherapy and COLD Database
11.Transrectal Prostate Cancer Ablation by Robotic High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) at 3 MHz: 18 Years Clinical Experiences
12.Future Uro-technologies: Hope or Hell for Prostate Cancer Patients?