Treatment quagmire …

I was the same with the view of surgery. But the key seems to be to find a highly experienced high volume surgeon with good stats. I chose a leading Top professor Whocantbenamedonhere at London Bridge guys Hospital who have the latest robotic kit. if you’re going privately it’s easy to select you want to do the work as long as you don’t mind travelling. I was about two hours away from London Bridge and it was relatively easy. Some of the chaps on here have come down from Manchester to see the same surgeon. I haven’t looked back since I had the surgery in November 2019. So pleased I found the prof as he is a legend in  urological surgery and blew my local consultant out the water with stats.

I looked at hifu also initially at UCLH which seems to be the central of excellence although the vibe I got was the chances are a number years down the line you’ll probably have to look for surgery anyway as prostate cancer tends to be multifocal.

I don’t know much about focused radiotherapy so can’t really comment there.

Please shout if you have any more questions and rest assured when it’s property treated you’ll look back with relief that it’s all behind you. it’s a hell of a rollercoaster in the first few months but once you get over the treatment life carries on pretty much as normal in between annual blood tests.

My diagnosis and options given were very similar to yours.

I had a couple of meetings with a surgeon, but after much research I decided to go for MR-guided SABR.

The 5 treatments are delivered inside a combined MRI and a Linear Accelerator. The key part for me was that during each treatment the radiologist is looking at live real time detailed images, the tumours are being tracked real time and targeted accurately.

I'm about 3 months post treatment, side effects are minimal and my PSA has dropped to a normal level, so at the moment it's looking good.

The hospital that treated me was in London but they do have one in Oxford.

Good luck

Paul