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Focal Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer

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China Medical University

Status

Withdrawn

Conditions

Prostate Cancer

Treatments

Diagnostic Test: Prostate Health Index

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03970863
CMUH107-REC3-119

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the cancer control for prostate cancer patients treated with focal therapy.

Full description

Traditional treatments for localized prostate cancer are radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy. However, they would carry side effects including urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, radiation cystitis and proctitis, leading to great impact on quality of life. Focal therapy of is another emerging treatment strategy for localized prostate cancer. It aims on ablation of the tumor with sparing of healthy prostatic tissue in order to minimize the injury to urinary and sexual function. Besides, owing to the improvement of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI), the investigators can localize the prostate cancer more precisely and the accessibility of focal therapy is also increased.

Literature showed focal ablation of HIFU or cryotherapy for low and intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients yielded in brilliant outcomes. Biopsy in post-treatment one year showed 87% and 94.6% were negative for clinically significant cancer, respectively. Up to 92% of patients did not need salvage treatment in two years. Ninety-one to one hundred precent of patients had no urinary incontinence, and 74% and 81.5% had no erectile dysfunction, respectively.

This prospective study aims to evaluate the cancer control and quality of life for prostate cancer patients treated with focal therapy.

Sex

Male

Ages

40 to 90 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • biopsy-proven unilateral prostate cancer, the other side insignificant cancer (Gleason 6 or less and maximal cancer core length 4mm or less) is allowed
  • clinical T2a or less
  • Gleason 4+3 or less
  • serum PSA less than 20 ng/mL

Exclusion criteria

  • T2b or higher
  • Gleason 4+4 or higher
  • serum PSA 20 or higher
  • lymph node or distant metastasis
  • previous treatment with prostatectomy, radiotherapy, androgen deprivation therapy, HIFU, or cryoablation

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Po-Fan Hsieh

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