Finding the Right Prostate Cancer Treatment for Me

Then, one of my friends from the gym told me he’d seen an ad about a procedure called High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, or HIFU. With HIFU, the doctor directs high-frequency sound waves to heat up and burn off diseased tissue in the prostate using an ultrasound probe. I don’t know how comfortable I felt hearing him say, ‘burning off diseased tissue’, but I appreciated hearing I may have another choice.

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