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Patient Advocacy – a critical asset for men on the prostate cancer journey
The role of Patient Advocate at the Focal Therapy Clinic The pandemic has made all of us appreciate the challenges of managing our health amidst the fear, uncertainty and doubt generated by multiple and conflicting sources of information. Making decisions on our healthcare when faced with what at times seemed like either too much or
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Prostate Cancer Recovery, Tougher than expected
Many of our patients tell us about family members, friends and colleagues who have undergone prostate cancer treatment have experienced regret in their treatment choice. This is often a key driver in seeking a second opinion on their own prostate cancer management, and in their enquiries about focal therapy. When we discuss “decision regret” it
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2021 Covid Pandemic and Prostate Cancer
Like its predecessor, the second year of the Covid pandemic brought new challenges and opportunities to patients and staff at The Focal Therapy Clinic. Cancellations of diagnostic and treatment procedures in the NHS continued to build throughout the year, and in a very uneven pattern across the country. This became a dominant theme amongst conversations
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Decision Tools Supporting Treatment Selection for Early Stage Prostate Cancer
How decision aids help men to be more informed and have a more active role in choosing their treatment Perhaps one of the most understated and underappreciated aspects of a prostate cancer diagnosis is the impact it has on a man’s mental and emotional wellbeing. “Knocked for six” and “state of shock” are often-heard descriptors
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AI tools are improving Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
AI as the key to the future of prostate cancer diagnostics and treatment As the backlogs in cancer referrals, diagnostics and treatment continue across the country, new tools and technologies that drive increased throughput and potentially deliver better outcomes seem highly attractive. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is often talked about in such terms, and is
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Precision Prostate Biopsies Improve Prostate Cancer Treatments: The MRI-Fusion Biopsy
How fusion biopsies are revolutionising prostate care and opening the door to more precise treatments When it comes to choosing a treatment for prostate cancer, if you are going to have your whole prostate treated, e.g. by surgery or radiotherapy then you only need to know if cancer is present in the gland. However, if
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Prostate Cancer Issues need to be discussed openly
Breaking the taboos around prostate cancer It's that time of year again – when moustaches are in and taboos around men's health are out.Movember starts this week, gearing up in its mission to break the taboos around mental health, prostate cancer and other diseases affecting millions of men across the globe.Elvin Box, Movember ambassador and
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Prostate Cancer in older men: Age discrimination?
Four Questions on the Implications of Age in Developing Prostate Cancer Ageing is the highest risk factor in developing prostate cancer, and its commonly accepted inevitability is often encapsulated in the comment “you don’t die of it, you die with it”.So entrenched is this mentality that it drives attitudes, behaviours and practices around the management
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Meet The Focal Therapy Clinic Experts
Supporting a world-class clinical team to deliver personalised patient care Focal Therapy, by its very nature, demands a whole person approach to patient care and a thorough interrogation of each patient’s values, priorities and quality of life. This requires a detailed, open and honest conversation with him about all treatment options, and how these will
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Health Inequalities – Why Should You Care?
Most of us have never heard the phrase “health inequalities” until it suddenly exploded in its use over the last year, describing a range of circumstances in which health outcomes and the delivery of healthcare are inequitably distributed across communities, population groups and the nation. Covid exposed the inequality of health outcomes across regions, towns
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- 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
- December 20, 2022
The Focal Therapy Clinic asked the Chat GPT, a chatbox developed by USA- based OpenAI a number of important questions on prostate cancer.
- December 9, 2022
New approaches in research call for a distinction between one’s biological and chronological ageing.
- November 23, 2022
The Focal Therapy Clinic, recently nominated at The Laing Buisson Health Awards, continues its dedication to offering patients greater awareness for their prostate cancer treatment options.
- November 11, 2022
A definition of health literacy and its impacts on prostate cancer diagnosis.
- October 26, 2022
Herbie Dunnan is a London- based poet who writes about the experience of prostate amongst black men.
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We know that settling on the right treatment is a big decision for you. If you would like to speak to one of our friendly and knowledgeable patient advocates about your diagnosis and our Focal Therapy treatment options then please do not hesitate to get in touch today.
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