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Small, Local Charities who are Delivering Big, National Impact for Men with Prostate Cancer
Happy new year! Our first blog of 2021 is inspired by four small and local charities that are making a real impact on prostate cancer research and practice well beyond their size and locality. In a time of uncertainty and stretched resources, it’s organisations like these that make the difference in what’s available to both
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Prostate Cancer in 2020: From Crisis To Opportunity
What a year this has been; like a never-ending emotional roller coaster, as fear and despair give way to opportunity and insight, back and forth. We’ve learned so much by listening to our patients’ experiences as they’ve navigated prostate cancer diagnoses amidst a raging pandemic and a restricted health service. Out of crisis comes opportunity,
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Patient FAQs: Why Don’t More People Know About HIFU Focal Therapy For Prostate Cancer?
We learn so much from talking with our patients both before and after their treatment. There’s a common theme to many of their comments and questions, often centring around “things I didn’t know then but glad I know now”, and by far the most dominant is “Why don’t more people know about HIFU or NanoKnife Focal
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An Inconvenient Truth: Public Toilets & Health
An inconvenient truth: public toilets and health Toilets – no one likes the word, few can look you in the eye when saying it, some even associate its use with one’s place in society. All this hate for something each and every one of us uses multiple times daily.Except when one isn’t available. And when
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The Focal Therapy ClinicMultidisciplinary Team Goes Digital
The multidisciplinary team (MDT) review of patient cases is indisputably a critical part of patient care for men with prostate cancer. Bringing urological, radiological, oncological and histological expertise together is in patients’ best interest and can significantly affect outcomes.Like many processes and procedures in healthcare, the MDT has had a push to go digital by
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Can Big Data Help Men With Prostate Cancer?
Big Data seems to be the solution to many of the world’s problems, if you believe the media stories that abound asserting its potential to address just about any problem out there. So, as our interest at the Focal Therapy Clinic is prostate cancer, we wanted to know if it is helping scientists and clinicians
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BAUS 2020: Reasons For Men To Be Cheerful
This week was the annual meeting of BAUS, the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Like most meetings this year, it was held everywhere and nowhere – eg online. But that didn’t detract from the presentation of and discussion around multiple innovations that will have real impact on men with prostate cancer.Medical conferences like this are
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Remember, Remember, The Month Of Movember
This week began the annual monthlong celebration of moustaches, raising of funds, and high-profile promotion of men’s health – also known as Movember.Founded in 2003 by JC Coghlin, Movember is a global community of “Mo Bros and Mo Sisters” making a difference in mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Coghlin was
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70 is the new 50. Age Discrimination a real issue for Prostate Cancer Patients
This week saw a major investigation from The Times describing how the NHS overwhelmingly neglected and, worse, outright discriminated against older people during COVID. The Guardian weighed in citing this as an amplification of something that has been happening for a while. Both reports generated widespread condemnation across many quarters, and stepped up advocacy amongst
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Prostate Cancer And The Black Community – The Beginning Of Progress?
As Black History Month draws to a close, it’s appropriate to focus on recent developments in understanding why black men in the UK bear twice the burden of prostate cancer as white men – 1 in 4 versus 1 in 8. Earlier this month, Jonathan Oloyede, leader of City Chapel in east London, joined OnFocus
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- Ethnicity
- Focal Therapy
- MRI Scans
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- Prostatectomy Surgery
- PSA Testing
- Radiotherapy / Hormone
- Recovery After Prostate Cancer
- Relationships & Partners
- Research & Innovation
- Testosterone Suppression
- Urinary Continence
- January 26, 2022
Patient advocacy is an integral part of the work The Focal Therapy Clinic does assisting patients with making decisions regarding treatment.
- January 14, 2022
Decision regret is commonly associated with prostate cancer treatment but focal therapy patients are more certain about their choice.
- December 22, 2021
The Focal Therapy Clinic looks back at how the pandemic has shaped the conversations around prostate cancer in 2021.
- December 10, 2021
An overview of the tools that have been developed to support men with prostate cancer in their decision making on treatment.
- November 23, 2021
A discussion and expert views on how will AI influence the future of diagnostics and treatment for prostate cancer.
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