Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Pending Questions

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• 作者：Xavier Cathelineau ; Rafael Sanchez-Salas
• 关键词：Focal therapy ; Prostate cancer ; Treatment ; Radical prostatectomy
• 刊名：Current Urology Reports
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：12
• 全文大小：269 KB
• 刊物主题：Urology/Andrology; Nephrology;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1534-6285
• 卷排序：17

文摘

Focal therapy (FT) represents a potential shift in clinical practice by featuring a tissue-sparing approach for prostate cancer (PCa) treatment. It stands midway between active surveillance (AS) and more aggressive options like radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiotherapy. The field has enormously evolved in the last few years but there are still pending questions to answer in the future. The manuscript overlooks FT in terms of indications, available energies, situation of tumor microenvironment, follow-up, re-interventions, and the future of this approach for PCa.