Prostate focal therapy options
For select men with localized prostate cancer, focal therapy targets the tumor while protecting the nerves and muscles that control your bladder and your intimacy. Find out if your case qualifies with a complimentary review by Dr. John Jurige.
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Most men in your position are offered one of two roads: surgery that removes the entire prostate, or radiation that treats all of it. Both can save your life. Both can also change it. Bladder control and intimacy are the price too many men are told to simply accept.
Here is what many men are never told: if your cancer is localized and caught early, you may not have to treat the entire gland to treat the cancer. Focal therapy targets the tumor itself and spares the healthy tissue around it, including the nerves and muscles that make you you.
Not every man qualifies. It depends on where the cancer is, what the imaging shows, and what the biopsy says. That is exactly what Dr. Jurige determines in your complimentary review. If focal therapy is not right for your case, he will tell you that plainly, too.
Understand the difference
Surgery or radiation treats the entire prostate. For advanced cancer, it can be the right and only choice. But when the whole gland is treated, the structures responsible for continence and intimacy are often in the line of fire.
Treats the smallest area necessary to address the cancer. The nerves and muscles that control urination and erections are left alone wherever your case allows. Outpatient. And if you ever need it, surgery and radiation remain fully available afterward.
Designed to protect the muscle behind bladder control.
Designed to spare the nerves behind intimacy.
Every other option remains open if you ever need it.
*Outcomes vary by patient and are not guaranteed. Candidacy is determined by clinical review.
A broader focal therapy perspective
Each treats cancer a different way. Which one fits depends on where your tumor sits and what your imaging shows. Dr. Jurige has worked with them all, and he matches the tool to the man, never the other way around.
Uses heat to treat a planned area of tissue.
Uses precision ultrasound while MRI monitors temperature in real time.
Uses electrical pulses to disrupt cancer cells without heat.
Uses controlled freezing to treat a planned area of tissue.
Personal review across multiple technologies
Since 2007, Dr. John Jurige has practiced one kind of medicine: prostate cancer. He has performed thousands of focal procedures and trains other physicians across the country in these techniques. When you request a review, he reads your records personally, and when you talk, you talk to him. No committee. No runaround.
Tell us where you are in the decision process
Share your PSA, MRI, biopsy, and treatment history
Receive guidance on which options merit discussion
Advanced options in one center
Men travel from across the United States and around the world to our Sarasota center for advanced focal therapies, precision diagnostics, and care focused exclusively on the prostate.
Your next step
The next step costs nothing and commits you to nothing. Complete the assessment below; it takes about three minutes. A Care Navigator calls you within one business day to gather your records. Dr. Jurige reviews your case personally and tells you, honestly, whether focal therapy fits. Then the decision is yours, made with complete information. No cost. No obligation. No pressure from us or anyone.
Researching for your husband? You can complete this on his behalf; many spouses do.
Your information is private and is reviewed only by Dr. Jurige's clinical team.
Rather talk it through? A Care Navigator is available now: (866) 765-9319