Laser ablation guided by MRI and ultrasound for prostate cancer
Part of Cancer, Kidney & urinary clinical trials.
This trial looks at a treatment that uses MRI and ultrasound to guide a laser to destroy prostate cancer. It may help men with low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer who do not have spread beyond the prostate.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You are a man and your age fits: 50–65, or older than 65
- Your prostate cancer is low- or intermediate-risk, and fewer than 50% of biopsy cores are positive in each prostate side (lobe)
- Cancer has not spread outside the prostate (no extra-capsular extension)
- Cancer has not reached the seminal vesicles and there is no regional or distant spread
- You have a prostate multiparametric MRI either before biopsy or more than 10 weeks after biopsy
- You previously had cryotherapy of the prostate, and your treatment plan must use MRI-ultrasound matching (co-registration)
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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