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Baltimore Prostate Cancer
This website provides prostate cancer information and enables visitors to find a qualified urologist and/or prostate cancer doctor in the Baltimore area. Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in men and the third leading cause of male cancer deaths. Typically, prostate cancer is very slow growing, but sometimes the disease can grow and spread quickly. Even with the latest research, it is extremely difficult for doctors to know which men have a slow growing cancer and which have a cancer that will spread rapidly.
What are the Symptoms of Prostate Cancer?
The early stages of prostate cancer generally show few symptoms. When a tumor becomes more advanced, patients may experience:
- A weak urinary stream
- Inability to urinate
- Interruption of urinary stream
- Frequent urination (especially at night)
- Pain or burning during urination
- Blood in urine
Who’s at Risk for Prostate Cancer?
- Men over the age of 40
- Known risk factors include age, race and family history
- African-American men have a higher incidence of prostate cancer than Caucasian or Asian men in the U.S. Many physicians, as well as the American Cancer Society, recommend that all men over the age of 50 have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test regularly.
HIFU for Prostate Cancer
In order to understand the basic concept of how HIFU works, an analogy can be drawn between HIFU ablating the prostate and sunrays entering a magnifying glass to burn a leaf. When a magnifying glass is held above a leaf in the correct position on a sunny day the sunrays intersect below the lens and cause the leaf to burn at the point of intersection.
If you insert your hand into the path of either one of the sun rays individually, away from the point of intersection, there is no significant heat felt or harm caused. Alternatively, if you place your hand at the point of intersection you will be burned. The scientific principles at work in this example are the same as those with HIFU. Instead of light as the energy source, HIFU utilizes sound. Instead of a magnifying glass HIFU uses a transducer. Just as the individual sunray is harmless to the hand, and individual sound wave is harmless to the healthy tissue it travels through. During HIFU, the physician uses continuously updated real-time images of the prostate to map out and execute the entire treatment plan. These images show treatment progression and permit the physician to customize treatment for maximum safety and effectiveness.
Benefits of HIFU for Prostate Cancer:
- HIFU destroys cancerous tissue.
- No radiation.
- Little to no blood loss
- HIFU is an outpatient procedure.
- HIFU can be used to treat locally recurrent prostate cancer.
- It is repeatable, if necessary.
- Treatment only lasts 1-4 hours.
- Highest quality of life after procedure.
- HIFU can treat radiation and surgery failures.
HIFU Network Doctors:
In addition to our practice, please view a list of HIFU doctors by location:
Jacksonville Hifu Doctor
Orlando HIFU Doctor
Palm Beach HIFU Doctor
Orlando Prostate Cancer Specialist
Maryland HIFU Doctor
Virginia HIFU Doctor
Please note, this list is not an endorsement, but merely a resource for you to use to find doctors close to you.
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