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Mental Health Awareness Week and Prostate Cancer
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and it’s been both revealing and inspiring to see and hear so many stories from men living with prostate cancer who are also dealing with challenges to their mental health. Covid-19 has, in some cases, exacerbated this.One of our patients, Perry Letcher, has written about his personal struggle
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TFTC Consultant Raj Nigam Co-authors International Study on Focal Therapy
In undertaking this comprehensive review of literature on the oncological and functional outcomes of men receiving focal therapy, Raj Nigam and colleagues set out to address the ongoing question of data on outcomes by framing it around the now-routine implementation of mpMRI as an essential part of the prostate cancer diagnostic pathway. In so doing,
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Regret Over Treatment of Prostate Cancer: A Patient’s Story
Any regret over a course of treatment is always difficult to hear and whilst every good intention may have been given we see many occasions where patients are particularly regretful regarding their ongoing side effects after radical prostatectomy cancer treatment. This article from MedScape looks at this area in detail and particularly from a patients
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Tim Dudderidge Featured In The Daily Mail Article – Me and My Operation
The Focal Therapy Clinic’s Tim Dudderidge’s patient David Tallant is the lead story in the Daily Mails’ article – ME AND MY OPERATION: Ice cold gas that kills prostate cancer and cuts side-effects. You can read the full article here.
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Marc Laniado Contributes To An Article By The Mail Online
The Focal Therapy Clinic's Marc Laniado contributes to an article by The Mail Online entitles, "Are men dying needlessly because we don't make all over-50s have prostate tests?" Which discusses the merits and need for this test. You can read the full article here.
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Marc Laniado’s Article in The Guardian on Technological Transformations to Urology
The Focal Therapy Clinic's Marc Laniado is the subject of an article in The Guardian called - Consoles and lasers have transformed my job as a urologist. Marc explains that the side effects of prostate cancer and its treatments can be life-changing and why he is passionate about improving outcomes for his patients. You can
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Tim Dudderidge Speaks With Dr Mark Porter On Radio 4’s Inside Health Programme
The Focal Therapy Clinics's Tim Dudderidge, Consultant Urologist speaks to Dr Mark Porter on Radio 4’s Inside Health programme. He discusses the options for prostate treatment.You can listen to the full interview here. For convenience interview transcript related to prostate cancer discussion from the radio 4 website is provided below.Discussion with Dr Mark Porter and Consultant
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Investigating the Psychological Impact of Active Surveillance
We are highlighting here an extremely interesting article on the Wiley Online Library website which explores the mental impact of being on active surveillance on the cancer patient. The continual nature of worry, tests, consultations and the very nature of being a 'cancer sufferer' is often overlooked in choosing this as a treatment option. Whilst
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The Focal Therapy Clinic Featured In The Mail on Sunday
Recently The Mail on Sunday and The Mail Online featured The Focal Therapy Clinic and Tim Dudderidge in their article, “There’s a prostate cancer cure that can spare a man’s sex life – so why won’t doctors tell us about it?” How high-intensity focused ultrasound could transform treatment of disease”.You can read the full article here.The
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Dr Art Rastinehad On Who We Should Consider for Focal Therapy & How
This article on the URO Today website covers the SUO session at the AUA 2019 meeting where Dr. Art Rastinehad discusses the selection of patients for Focal Therapy for their prostate cancer.It highlights how focal therapy evolved from the over diagnosis and over the treatment of prostate cancer in relation to treatment's side effects, primarily
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- News & Views
- Active Surveillance
- Age & Longevity
- Anxiety & Depression
- Charities & Campaigns
- Erectile Function
- Ethnicity
- Focal Therapy
- MRI Scans
- Prostate Biopsies
- Prostatectomy Surgery
- PSA Testing
- Radiotherapy / Hormone
- Recovery After Prostate Cancer
- Relationships & Partners
- Research & Innovation
- Testosterone Suppression
- Urinary Continence
- July 14, 2021
An overview of the approaches to prehabilitation and rehabilitation for prostate cancer patients and how these can improve recovery after treatment.
- June 25, 2021
Focal therapy is advancing as new approaches and technologies are investigated, developed and adopted along the diagnostic and treatment pathway.
- June 17, 2021
It’s important for patients to know what the standards are in prostate cancer diagnostics that will provide accurate information and optimal choice in their treatment.
- June 7, 2021
Few treatments for prostate cancer have been unaffected by Covid-19, and focal therapy is no exception. But a combination of clinical and social factors are combining to increase its visibility and are driving more men to make it their preferred treatment for localised prostate cancer.
- June 4, 2021
How two prostate cancer patient’s overcame Fear, Anxiety and Doubt by equipping themselves with knowledge and the confidence to question.
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