Focal Therapy

Focal therapy is another approach to the treatment of localized prostate cancer. Only the cancerous area of the prostate is ablated to eradicate the cancer rather than removing or ablating the entire prostate gland. This approach may cause fewer complications and side effects associated with the removal of the entire prostate gland. Because focal therapy only treats a part of the prostate, the possibility of microscopic prostate cancer cells remaining in the untreated prostate tissue exists.