HIFU experience?

That is an excellent video Adrian has posted and it was one of the participants that gave me HIFU on two occasions for failed radiotherapy and has now done over a thousand HIFU procedures, which essentially is the same as for HIFU given as an initial treatment. It quite often takes two treatments to do the job and you have to be carefully selected and found to be suitable. They also do Cryotherapy in cases where the cancer is in a position where the HIFU probe cannot reach or Nanoknife (Irreversible Electroporation), a more recent procedure, which can be used more widely in the Prostate.

As regards the HIFU procedure, I started my journey home about an hour after coming round from the aneasthetic and was driven home about 210 miles from London to Devon. The next day there was some swelling and I had to sloutch back when sitting, rather like after having a biopsy to lessen pressure on the tender parts. The catheter was removed a week later and I was almost back to normal. Some 5 years on, I am still in remission.

HIFU generally has less incidence of incontinence and erectile dysfunction than surgery. However, in some cases where HIFU has proved unable to do the job, RT or Prostatectomy may be required and this is made more difficult after HIFU (Like Prostatectomy after Radiation)