A non-invasive treatment for prostate cancer that is considered the biggest step forward in 20 years is effective, a study has confirmed.
Focal therapy prevents side effects associated with surgery and radiotherapy, and means that patients can recover at home.
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This procedure uses high-intensity ultrasound to heat cancer tissue with millimeter precision or cryotherapy to cool it.
Few public hospitals have the equipment and doctors are skeptical due to the lack of long-term data.
But Imperial College London claims to have gathered enough evidence to support its widespread use.
Professor Hashim Ahmed, a leading expert on prostate cancer, said: ‘Our study has shown that focus therapy can reduce urine leakage and sexual problems up to ten times.
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“It is important that we show for the first time that it has similar cancer control during radical prostatectomy, five to eight years after treatment.
“Although focal therapy is not suitable for all patients, there are thousands who are suitable each year and need to be fully informed about it.”
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in the UK, with approximately 48,500 new cases occurring annually.
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