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The Power of Words
Being told you have cancer can render you mute, and viscerally disconnected between head and heart. The fear, complexity and taboos associated with prostate cancer in particular mean that finding a comfortable and effective language to express yourself can be challenging. Yet learning and using this language is crucial to achieving good outcomes for you
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Data Really Can Save Lives
There has been much confusion and divisive opinion over the NHS campaign #datasaveslives, aimed at building support amongst NHS patients and the general public to give consent for sharing their personal medical data for research purposes. NHSx, the NHS group driving the campaign, explains why data sharing is important:“Information collected by health and care organisations
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GP Surgeries need to support, not discourage Prostate Cancer Screening
The substantial drop in GP referrals for prostate cancer diagnostics over the last year has led to concern over a mounting cancer backlog, mainly focused on hospitals. But it also merits a look at patient’s experience in primary care and how this might be improved. We’ve explored this a lot over recent months by talking
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Tim Dudderidge – Prostate Cancer UK Clinical Champion
In April 2021, 22 Health Care Professionals from across the UK became inaugural Clinical Champions for Prostate Cancer UK. The programme was established to create projects that aim to transform care for people living with or affected by prostate cancer over the next eighteen months. Twenty-two Clinical Champions were selected, and we're delighted that Tim
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Hormone Treatment – What Every Man Needs to Know
We have a continual stream of patients who come to the Focal Therapy Clinic having undergone hormone therapy, or having had it recommended to them and exploring alternatives. All wish to exit from it or avoid it altogether. Those who wish to exit tell us they weren't counselled on its side effects and those exploring
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Prehab & Rehab: Support for Prostate Cancer Treatment and Recovery
Recent studies have shown that prehab/rehab can deliver big benefits to prostate cancer patients. A recent Australian study demonstrated the importance of prostate cancer prehabilitation, concluding that these interventions demonstrably helped to optimise physical and psychological recovery, and “played a key part in enhancing person-centred care.” Research in the UK has shown that by combining
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New Technologies Driving Focal Therapy Forward
We discussed in a recent blog how Focal Therapy is emerging from the pandemic in terms of what's driving awareness and demand among prospective patients. What we didn't comment on is how the provision of focal therapy is advancing, as new approaches and technologies are investigated, developed and adopted along the diagnostic and treatment pathway.
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Consistency Drives Best Practice Across Prostate Cancer Pathway
Despite national guidelines, we see considerable variation across the country in key elements of the diagnostic pathway for prostate cancer, exacerbated over the last year by the constraints on diagnostic services incurred by the Covid19 pandemic. We hear this continually from our patients, who come to us with imaging, biopsies and histology that often need
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Prostate HIFU Focal Therapy – Becoming the treatment of choice for men with localised Prostate Cancer
Few treatments for prostate cancer have been unaffected by the pandemic, and focal therapy is no exception. But a combination of clinical, social and institutional factors are combining to increase its visibility and are driving more men to make it their preferred treatment of choice for localised prostate cancer. Imaging, reporting & MDTs With the
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Don’t settle for the anxiety of Active Surveillance, take control and explore your treatment options.
FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. There’s been lots of that around over the last year, and few men with suspected or diagnosed prostate cancer have escaped it as the pandemic constrained diagnostic and treatment services. We speak with so many men who are confronting and managing FUD throughout their experience with prostate cancer, and we’ve
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- MRI Scans
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- Prostatectomy Surgery
- PSA Testing
- Radiotherapy / Hormone
- Recovery After Prostate Cancer
- Relationships & Partners
- Research & Innovation
- Testosterone Suppression
- Urinary Continence
- October 14, 2022
The Focal Therapy Clinic has added NanoKnife IRE to the prostate cancer treatments it offers to patients.
- October 14, 2022
The Imperial Prostate masterclass on Focal Therapy took place at Imperial College.
- August 16, 2022
The Importance of support networks in navigating a prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment.
- July 27, 2022
A list of new approaches that could enhance primary care in prostate cancer diagnosis.
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