Keep your pecker up, Bill… new prostate cancer zapper won’t wreck your love life!
Treatment that uses sound waves to blast away prostate tumours
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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