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That is absolutely brilliant news that your surgeon took the HIFU suggestion seriously, Roger! It must be a massive weight off your shoulders to have a more localized, less invasive option on the table instead of leaping straight into a highly complex salvage prostatectomy.

Barry and francij1 definitely gave you some golden advice there. Keeping the treatment focal with something like HIFU or cryotherapy makes an immense difference in preserving your quality of life, especially since shielding yourself from permanent incontinence is a major priority.

Getting the MRI and targeted biopsy knocked out next is the perfect game plan. It will map out the exact coordinates of those remaining localized cells so the team can see if the tumor margins are a clean match for focal ablation.

Take it one step at a time, mate. You successfully advocated for yourself and completely shifted the trajectory of your treatment plan—that's a huge win in itself. Wishing you the absolute best of luck with the upcoming scans, and please do keep us posted on how the biopsy results turn out!

From my reading of what you say, it looks to me as though you had HIFU administered twice as Focal Treatment for your Prostate Cancer as I did but I had Radiotherapy as a primary treatment, so HIFU as a salvage treatment for failed RT in my case. I have been told that as I have been subject to heavy radiation and HIFU twice, the Oncologists would not administer further Focal treatment should MRI and increasing PSA show a further tumour even if this was considered significant. It will then be my option to do nothing or have the tumour treated by Hormone therapy or possibly Chemotherapy. Should it be found that you develop Prostate confined significant tumour, you may be able to have further Focal Treatment or Radio treatment. With HIFU, it can only treat where the probe can reach, so another form of Focal Treatment might be necessary, such as Cryotherapy. Well, let's hope you don't need further treatment. So as francij says, important that you have regular PSA checks and probably annual MRI or whatever interval is considered appropriate for you.

I hope things go well for you.

Hi,  Are you on a fast track for the melanoma.  I recall when I had a skin graft in 2007 for a Basal Cell Carcinoma there was a young lady who'd been referred for surgery on her forehead directly by her GP cutting out the Dermotologist.   I've had 2 skin grafts, curettage, cryotherapy and various creams for Actinic Keratosis for 20yrs, in fact when my medical records came on line it turned out I'd had the chemo cream, Efudix, in 1994 without knowing what it was.   It took another 9yrs after my grafts to find a prostate cancer.  I've spent a lot of time outside but the dermotologist said the intense sun of time spent tropical places with weak suncream lets it get deeper and has more effect.  I'm on 800units a day Vitamin D for other treatments and have read that at as you get older you should supplement.  Good luck.

Hi,  Good luck with the trial, I admire your fortitude. Looking up the trial it's beyond me and so is the summary.    The full description is linked here if anyone wants to look.  https://haldatx.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/AACR-Triple-Meeting-Halda-Presentation-24OCT2025-1.pdf

I've had 16yrs of various sun damage treatments on my scalp.   I went privately in November and was given cryotherapy. He said keep it covered in vaseline, don't puncture the blister.  It was great advice and healed very quickly without sign.   Although if it made your eyes water he might have given you a bigger blast.

All the best, Peter

My husband had the cryotherapy on the 22nd Jan. It was a day procedure, he came home with a Foley catheter. That was removed after a week. He was very swollen and bruised naturally after the op, the swelling gown down in 2 weeks, he had a little bit of pain/discomfort too, so he had to take some paracetamol, but nothing too concerning. After the foley came out, he was retraining urine, so he had to self catheterise which was not very nice, but got easier as time went on. He had to do that for a month. For a week or so he had to use around 4-6 self catheters daily. The last 2 weeks he only needed to catheterise once in the night. After a month he’s going to the toilet ok, goes through the night without having to get up for a wee. He just had his PSA test and it was 0.4 which we're very happy about and we will have a follow up consultation with the specialist next Monday so we will know more about how good a 0.4 result really is. The biggest problem is that he’s got ED and it is upsetting him, but hopefully that will improve in time. 

I was diagnosed with Prostate cancer, on the day I was meeting consultant, David Cameron was on TV extolling the Naonknife treatment that had cured him,

So can I have NanoKnife focal therapy - sorry not available on NHS Wales, only private

OK 2nd choice can I have HIFU - sorry not available on NHS Wales, only private

OK can I have Cryotherapy- sorry not available on NHS Wales, only private

you can have Radical Prostatectomy (DaVinci) ..but not best suited to me

or Radio Therapy + HT pre & post treatment.

OK .. can I have MR-Linac   Real time tracking with MRI image, very accurate, very low collateral damage.….- sorry not available on NHS Wales, only NHS England or private  ( ~£45k)     
It is your right to request treatment cross border in NHS England  …. Christie’s NHS Trust allow NHS Wales patients.    No, all requests for outside treatment are rejected as no funds.

My option is Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT).     This is effective, but can damage the bowel, with wonderful terms such as anal-leakage for 6-9 months.

However good news, you can have a rectal spacer gel injected, this puts a space between bowel & prostrate so bowel does not get irradiated in collateral damage.   OK can I have that please …. sorry not available on NHS Wales, only private  (£8k)    It will be performed by the NHS urologist who has been treating me.

Feels like NHSWales is a 2nd class service.

So my Q would be, is PROSTRATE CANCER UK able to assist in obtaining treatment in NHS England or using Private facilities.   I’m retired, with no medical insurance.

Very few men have Cryotherapy in the Uk and those that do often have it because HIFU cannot reach the tumour or Nanoknife is unsuitable for their Focal Therapy. So you may not get many replies from people who have had it. However, I can assure you that some men are similarly affected by urine frequency and urgency due to Radiation treatment. I was one of them and like you had to get up up to 8 times a night at the peak but this gradually reduced until about four weeks after RT ended I was back to my prior treatment once a night number. Efforts are made with Cryotherapy to protect other parts from the ice ball that damages the tumour but as with RT it can irritate the bladder. As with so much about PCa and it's treatment, the effects can very considerably from man to man. When I had HIFU I was very uncomfortable while the Catheter was in place but quite quickly resumed my normal urine visits after it was removed about a week later.

Hi Guys,

First time I've posted anything on the forum having previously spent some reading of other peoples stories, so here goes.

I underwent Cryotherapy on the 8th of January and had a catheter for 2 weeks- a week longer than expected.

A week on from catheter removal, I'm finding I'm waking 7 to 8 times a night to pee- I thought it was bad prior to the treatment- at 3 to 4 a night. I'm knackered in the mornings and struggling to get back to work.

I wanted to ask of others experiences once the catheter had been removed and how long it took to return to something like "normality"

I'd really appreciate others post Cryotherapy stories.

Many thanks,

Trev.

Hi 

I have been looking at discussions on the forum for a couple of weeks now and it seems a really kind and generous forum and so I am posting to see if anyone might please share their wisdom and experience around treatment options. 

My husband, 54, has recently been diagnosed with localised prostate cancer. He had no symptoms, but had a PSA test, which showed it raised at 4.85 and then another PSA around the same level so had an MRI. The MRI showed a diffuse area so they offered a biopsy, which showed cancer - Gleason score 7 (3+4). It is localised and no node or other involvement beyond prostate. 

We feel very fortunate that it has been found early and that we have options, but with options come decisions, which is where it feels more challenging. 

My husband has, in theory, been offered a variety of treatment options, including active surveillance, radiation, brachytherapy, HIFU, cryotherapy and a radical prostatectomy. 

Given his age (relatively young), he's been advised against radiation therapy given the chance of it causing secondary cancers. We have also been led to believe that if he has the treatments that aren't surgery now, he will likely not be able to have surgery later or it will present greater risks.

It seems that the choice we are being steered towards is between active surveillance and a radical prostatectomy. 

To provide some context, there is a history of cancer within my husband's family - both his parents died of cancer relatively young (very early 60s and 70) - his father of oesophageal (having had mouth cancer previously) and his mother of pancreatic. Given this experience of cancer, my husband is keen to have the cancer removed. Whilst the surgeon has advised there is no genetic connection between prostate cancer and the cancers my husband's parents had, I have read that there can be connections genetically between prostate cancer and pancreatic cancer meaning that prostate cancer can be more aggressive where there is the genetic connection - additionally, his parents are from a part of Spain where a particular BRCA1 founder originates, which seems to be linked with this. I appreciate I may be worrying unnecessarily (and it may be a case of a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing!) and my husband has never undergone any genetic testing re cancer, but I guess we both feel that with the outcomes his close family members have had with cancers and given we have been advised he will need treatment at some stage even if he undergoes active surveillance at this point, we are veering towards surgery. My husband has private medical care through his work and so has seen a surgeon who specialises in radical prostatectomies with CUP and who thinks, based on the information he currently has, that he can spare the nerves (I am not sure if this is the man commonly referred to as the professorwhocannotbenamed?). Given all of this and thinking it would be better to have surgery at a younger age and whilst the cancer is as small and contained as possible, my husband is leaning towards a prostatectomy rather than active surveillance. 

I am sorry for the long post, but I would really welcome people's thoughts and advice around the choice between active surveillance and a radical prostatectomy – both in terms of personal experience and in terms of anything we may be failing to consider / unaware of.

Thank you very much in advance. 

Hi all

I had focal cryotherapy a week ago and am due to have the catheter removed tomorrow. I have to say I’m not looking forward to it, and the uncertainty around continence and how to deal with it - practically and emotionally. 
So, my question is what are others experience, and how did you cope?

Thanks in advance.

Steve