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Local Therapies

Treatment for Localized Disease

• Newly Diagnosed PC: Evaluating the Options (Part 2 - for lower risk patients) • Mark Scholz, MD 2003
  1. Deferred therapy (previously known as watchful waiting)
  2. Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)
  3. Brachytherapy (Seeds)
  4. Surgery (radical prostatectomy)
  5. Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
  6. Cryotherapy (Cryo)
  7. High Dose Radiation (HDR) Monotherapy
• Active Surveillance For Favorable Risk Prostate Cancer:
  What Are The Results, and How Safe Is It? - Laurence Klotz, MD et al. 2006
• Active Surveillance with High Resolution Color-Doppler Transrectal Ultrasound Monitoring • Duke Bahn, MD, Mark Scholz, MD, and Richard Lam, MD 2007
• Treatment Choices for Early (Localized) Prostate Cancer PDF • Grace Lu-Yao, PhD & Siu-Long Yao, MC 2010
• Radical Prostatectomy • Stanley Brosman, MD 2003
• Long Term Results of Surgery for Localized PC PDF • Stanley Brosman, MD 2010
• Nerve Sparing Robotic Prostatectomy • Ashutosh Tewari, MD, Mani Menon, MD, et al 2004
• Nerve Sparing Robotic Prostatectomy -Update • Ashutosh Tewari, MD 2007
• Prostate Seed Implantation for Prostate Cancer • Peter Grimm, DO, et al. 2003
• High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy • D. Jeffrey Demanes MD, FACRO, FACR 2007
• Temporary Seed Implant with High Dose Rate Brachytherapy (HDR) • Glenn Gejerman, MD 2003
• Salvage High Dose Rate Brachytherapy After Radiation • Paul Y. Song, M.D. 2008
• Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) • Lisa Chaiken, MD, et al. 2004
• Nine Decisions Before Choosing Radiation Therapy After Prostatectomy PDF 2010
• Cryoablation of the Prostate • Duke K. Bahn, MD, et al. 2005 

Novel Therapies

• Has the Time Come for Focal Therapy of Prostate Cancer? • Martin J Weissman, M.D. 2008
• Review of Focal Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer PDF 2010
• Transrectal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: The Next Generation? • Douglas O. Chinn, MD 2005
• CancerCryo-Immunotherapy: A Battle Between the Immune System and Cancer • Haakon Ragde, MD and Duke K. Bahn, MD 2006