{"id":198727,"date":"2025-10-03T04:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198727\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T04:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T04:25:13","slug":"focal-therapy-for-prostate-cancer-care-is-an-emerging-new-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/198727\/","title":{"rendered":"Focal Therapy for Prostate Cancer Care Is an Emerging New Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The man on the operating table is 50, fit and otherwise healthy. Under the care of a different doctor, he might be waking up without a prostate. But today, inside a brightly lit English operating room at Parkside Hospital in Wimbledon, surgeon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.nhs.uk\/consultant-directory\/hashim-u-ahmed\" title=\"Hashim Ahmed bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Hashim Ahmed<\/a> has other plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The patient, under general anesthesia, lies still, legs suspended in stirrups\u2014an undignified posture, but necessary for what comes next. Ahmed, chair of urology at Imperial College London, consults an ultrasound screen to guide a probe into place alongside the patient\u2019s walnut-size prostate. The tumor is small, just 10 millimeters (0.4 inches) across, but it\u2019s the kind that usually requires aggressive radiation, surgery or hormone treatment, which attack the whole gland. Ahmed is using a different technique: Bursts of high-intensity sound from the probe will cook the cancer with pinpoint precision, sparing the surrounding tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man on the operating table is 50, fit and otherwise healthy. Under the care of a different&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100789,687,18658,71014,114663,97,86788,3319,27599,1303,1049,86330],"class_list":["post-198727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-businessweek","tag-cancer","tag-cleveland-clinic","tag-great-britain","tag-hashim-ahmed","tag-health","tag-imperial-college-london","tag-joe-biden","tag-melbourne","tag-michigan","tag-united-kingdom","tag-university-college-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}