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Dr. Schwen on focal therapies for prostate cancer
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On an episode of Cleveland Clinic’s Cancer Advances podcast, host Dale Shepard, MD, PhD, talked with Zeyad Schwen, MD, about the use of focal therapy to treat patients with localized prostate cancer.
Schwen, who is a urologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, covers these topics:
- The difference between traditional treatments and focal therapies
- Factors that make a patient a good candidate for focal therapy
- Focal procedures, including Nanoknife, high-intensity focused ultrasound and cryotherapy
- Risk of recurrence and salvage therapies
- Clinical trials devoted to focal therapies
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