Focal treatment can take a number of forms. It is not widely used in the UK especially as a first line treatment but more as a salvage treatment for radiation that has failed to do the job, mostly where the cancer is still within the Prostate. The most frequently used form in the UK is HIFU which stands for High Intensity Focal Ultrasound., something I had. Best results are achieved where the cancer is not extensive and is confined to one side of the Prostate. In the USA it is more usually Cryotherapy where an ice ball is formed to destroy the cancer cells. A few men in the UK have this as a primary treatment or as salvage therapy. There is another form of focal therapy called Nanoknife ( Irreversible Electroporation where high charged electrical probes blow holes in the tumour but this treatment has mainly been confined to small scale trials. There are other forms of focal therapy but generally these are not done in the UK. So with focal, gamma rays and other sorts of the usual radiation are not used.
In the relatively few cases where it is done in the UK ,HIFU it is done within trials in the NHS or outside trials privately. There is a man whose team operate at UCLH in London or privately. Forum rules prevent me giving his name but he is regarded as the top focal man in the UK. However, his details are given in this link :- http://www.theprincessgracehospital.com/our-specialists/specialist/embma/professor-mark-emberton/
There are a small number of other centres doing HIFU in the UK which can be found using Google.
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