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12 March 2016

Keep your pecker up, Bill…new prostate cancer zapper won’t wreck your love life!

A treatment that uses sound waves to blast away prostate tumours has been proven to cure as many men of the disease as surgery that removes the gland – while causing significantly fewer side effects.

Until now the new procedure, called high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), has been considered experimental.

This has meant that the majority of British men diagnosed with the condition – who include former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman – are offered the more invasive operation called radical prostatectomy, which has a clear track record despite the risk of impotence and incontinence.

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