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INDEX (HIFU) Theraputic Trial - Willing Candidates Needed

INDEX (HIFU) Theraputic Trial - Willing Candidates Needed

INDEX is a multi-centre prospective single arm inter-vention trial evaluating focal therapy for localized pros-tate cancer. The trial will use High Intensity Focused Ul-trasound (HIFU).

INDEX aims to recruit and treat a total of 140 men with focal therapy and follow them for a period of 3 years.

 

 

 

INDEX Aims

Men who have localized prostate cancer can choose to have a number of treat-ments to treat the whole prostate, including radio-therapy and surgery. Active surveillance with selective delayed intervention can also be offered in many men with low-intermediate risk can-cer. Those men who have treatment to the whole prostate have greater cer-

tainty that all of the cancer is treated. However, treatment to the whole prostate can affect sexual function (poor erections), urine control (urine leakage requiring pads) and can cause back passage problems (bleeding, diarrhoea or pain).

An alternative approach that is being explored within tri-als is to treat only the can-

cer, and not the whole pros-tate - so-called ‘focal thera-py’. There are a number of treatment modalities that can be used to treat cancer in a focal manner. The one selected for this trial is HI-FU. MRI scans and template prostate mapping (TPM) biopsies will be used to lo-calise cancer and assess suc-cess after focal therapy.

For more information please see the INDEX Trial newsletter

Posted by Georgina Wilson on January 6, 2012 11:39 AM | Comments (1) | Share

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I had radiotherapy in 2003 which appeared successful but them reignited in 2009. I received Salvage HIFU in 2010 in 2 stages owing to equipment failure. I am willing participate if this would be helpful

Posted by Brian Hixson on January 11, 2012 5:17 PM

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