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		<title>More Prostate Cancer Awareness: Treatment Awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Increasingly, many surgical disciplines have come to grips with the significant complications associated with radical cancer surgery and have modified their approach to cancer excision. For example, surgery for breast cancer has moved away from a radical approach and adopted the lumpectomy or local excision instead of removing the whole organ. This modified approach preserves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2011/09/more-prostate-cancer-awareness-treatment-awareness/</link>
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		<title>Prostate Cancer Awareness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although September is officially designated as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (blue month), every month should be recognized for prostate cancer awareness. Be aware that prostate cancer is for the most part without symptoms and a silent disease. Be aware that prostate cancer deaths are the second leading cause of male cancer deaths after lung cancer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2011/09/prostate-cancer-awareness/</link>
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		<title>Localized Prostate Cancer, Treatment Options  and Their Complications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Localized Prostate Cancer, Treatment Options and Their Complications The accompanying table features the four definitive treatment options for localized prostate cancer. All four basic treatment options, high intensity focused ultrasound (hifu), cryoablation (freezing), radiation (includes brachytherapy and proton beam) and surgery/robotics have similar survival benefits. Also included with the table are several important footnotes, one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2011/07/126/</link>
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		<title>PROSTATE CANCER WITH A NORMAL PSA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PROSTATE CANCER WITH A NORMAL PSA Some 15-20 per cent of men with a normal total PSA (tPSA) of 4 ng/ml or less can have clinically significant prostate cancer. These men have no symptoms and usually no findings on examination. The only way these men can be identified is by calculating their per cent free [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2011/05/prostate-cancer-with-a-normal-psa/</link>
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		<title>Multifocal Prostate Cancer, Tumor Volume, and the Index Lesion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When prostates removed surgically for prostate cancer are examined, 50-75% of these specimens contain more than one area or focus of cancer and called multifocal prostate cancer. In other words, only about 25% of men may have a unifocal prostate cancer lesion that may be suitable for focal therapy. In these prostates with multifocal cancer, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2011/02/multifocal-prostate-cancer-tumor-volume-and-the-index-lesion/</link>
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		<title>What You Should Know About Prostate Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that prostate cancer is the second leading cause of male cancer deaths after lung cancer? Most men have few if any symptoms of prostate cancer. How will you learn about your situation. Will it be too late? One of the biggest misconceptions about needle biopsies is that they spread the cancer. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2011/01/what-you-should-know-about-prostate-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Prostate Cancer, is your cancer localized?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are four recognized definitive treatment options currently offered for localized prostate cancer,HIFU, cryoablation, radiation and robotic surgery. The best treatment outcomes after any one of these options is in men that have only truly localized prostate cancer, or cancer localized to the prostate and not outside the prostate. The survival benefits for localized prostate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2010/11/prostate-cancer-is-your-cancer-localized/</link>
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		<title>MICRO-FOCAL PROSTATE CANCER, does it need treatment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A prostate needle biopsy result indicating a 5% or less of a Gleason 6 prostate cancer in one needle core only is termed a micro-focal prostate cancer The diagnosis MAY be accurate after a standard 12 core needle biopsy and represent a very small volume of prostate cancer BUT it may also represent a mis-diagnosis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2010/11/micro-focal-prostate-cancer-does-it-need-treatment/</link>
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		<title>THE POWERFUL BENEFITS OF HIFU FOR PROSTATE CANCER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When reviewing the treatment options for LOCALIZED prostate cancer you should study the complications associated with these individual treatment options. Especially so since the SURVIVAL BENEFITS of the four standard treatment options, HIFU, cryoablation,radiation and surgery are SIMILAR but the incidence of their complications are very different and these COMPLICATIONS affect not only the patient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2010/11/the-powerful-benefits-of-hifu-for-prostate-cancer/</link>
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		<title>PROSTATE CANCER TREATMENT OPTIONS and Quality of Life (QoL) issues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most men are asymptomatic when first diagnosed with prostate cancer and not only do they expect to survive but they expect to be cured without sacrificing their quality of life (QoL). Since the four broad categories of definitive treatment options for localized prostate cancer (HIFU,CRYO,RADIATION and SURGERY) result in similar survival benefits, it is very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hifurx.com/blog/2010/10/prostate-cancer-treatment-options-and-quality-of-life-qol-issues/</link>
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