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HAPpy Trial - Brachytherapy,Clinical Trial,hemi-ablative

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Posted 10 May 2015 at 14:59

Just wondering if anyone else has signed up for the HAPpy Trial? It’s a clinical trial evaluating hemi-ablative low dose brachytherapy for localised prostate cancer. My procedure is in a fortnight and they are hoping that by only inserting the radioactive seeds in one half of my prostate (the side with the cancer) they will reduce any possible side effects.

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Posted 13 May 2015 at 20:51

Never heard of the Happy Trial but it does sound promising & less invasive. Good luck, hope all goes well for you.

Lyrical

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Posted 13 May 2015 at 22:11

HAPpy is a small scale local trial at Guildford hospital. Below link is an abstract from the brachytherapy conference in March this year.

Interesting other reports included a review from Guys, a larger project that found survival rates are the same for brachy patients and those having surgery, although brachy patients suffer fewer immediate side effects, and a report on bladder cancer as a side effect of brachy or RT which concluded that bladder cancer was no more likely but if it does develop it tends to be more aggressive/invasive.

Some cheerful reading then :-)

http://www.prostatebrachytherapy.org.uk/abstracts/2015_ProstateBrachytherapyMeeting_A4_Abstracts.pdf

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

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User
Posted 13 May 2015 at 20:51

Never heard of the Happy Trial but it does sound promising & less invasive. Good luck, hope all goes well for you.

Lyrical

User
Posted 13 May 2015 at 22:11

HAPpy is a small scale local trial at Guildford hospital. Below link is an abstract from the brachytherapy conference in March this year.

Interesting other reports included a review from Guys, a larger project that found survival rates are the same for brachy patients and those having surgery, although brachy patients suffer fewer immediate side effects, and a report on bladder cancer as a side effect of brachy or RT which concluded that bladder cancer was no more likely but if it does develop it tends to be more aggressive/invasive.

Some cheerful reading then :-)

http://www.prostatebrachytherapy.org.uk/abstracts/2015_ProstateBrachytherapyMeeting_A4_Abstracts.pdf

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard

 
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