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G'day Joe

G’day Joe,

Yes indeed there are so very many variables that it is impossible to state a ‘one size’ fits all solution. All decisions should be tailor made to take into account as many aspects of an individual’s desires and aims, current health, relationships and attitude to life – the list is endless, but there is one word that sums it up the individual’s paradigm. the set of experiences, beliefs and values that affect the way an individual perceives reality and responds to that perception. And a paradigm is as individual as a fingerprint. That is why, when we set up our site we also stated our aims very clearly:

We want to provide comfort to any man diagnosed with prostate cancer, to offer thoughtful support to him and his family and to help them to decide how best to deal with the diagnosis by providing them with and guiding them to suitable information, being mindful at all times that it is the individual's ultimate choice that the path he decides to follow is his own and that of his family, based on his particular circumstances.


I’ve just finished the final draft of the booklet which is only a basic guide when all is said and done. If my darling wife is better tomorrow – she has a very bad does of ‘flu I’ll be off to the printers then – and will start loading the new version on the site (not forgetting to send you your copies TV – and thank you again for your generosity!!)

All the best to you

Terry in Australia

Re: G'day Joe

Thanks Terry.
Looking forward to getting these copies and hoping that they will arrive by Dec 11th as that is when I present my talk on HIFU to my prostate cancer support group. I am hoping if things work out that I can also be able to hand out this brochure with those of Ablatherm HIFU and Sonablate HIFU but if not I can always hand them out at the next month's meeting

HIFU - Ablatherm over Sonablate?

The hard copies will be ready at 2.00 om tomorrow, Joe and I'll get yours off to you tomorrow afternoon. I don't know what the Canadian postal service is like, but if it is similar to the US service delivery might be in time!

Just seeing your mention of the Ablatherm and Sonablate pamphlets, have you seen any studies (apart from those done by the manufacturers) that demonstrates one's superiority over the other, or does it depend on factors like size of gland, situation of tumour etc?

All the best

Terry

Re: HIFU - Ablatherm over Sonablate?

Try http://www.hifu.ca/ablatherm-vs-sonablate/01-study.php

and http://www.internationalhifu.com/comparison-of-hifu-devices.html

Surprise - both vendors like their own equipment the best.

There is more info at http://www.prostate-cancer.org/education/novelthr/Chinn_TransrectalHIFU.html

You might also want to look at http://www.yananow.net/Mentors/WTL.htm

Re: HIFU - Ablatherm over Sonablate?

The problem with HIFU as related to Ablatherm and Sonablate is that the technology is changing very rapidly. Both the Sonablate and the Ablatherm have comparison charts which include several errors in information. The Sonablate chart does not have upto date information on the Ablatherm and the same is true for the Ablatherm chart. As to the site www.hifu.ca/ablatherm-vs-sonablate/01-study.php, this study involves a sample size of 19 patients. In Zoology this sample size is absurd. There is other variables that have not been identified as well. No PH.D researcher would ever consider drawing conclusion for such a small sample. In conducting an evaluation of an animal population the researcher would sample as close to 10% of the population as possible. In human populations this is not possible but sample size should be at least into the hundreds before one makes broad sweeping statements as to the effectiveness of Sonablate HIFU.
This site, http://www.prostate-cancer.org/education/novelthr/Chinn_TransrectalHIFU.html has quite a good comparison. From my research both Ablatherm and Sonablate HIFU systems are excellent and very close to each other in their procedures. Each system has made updates that have brought them closer together in their effectiveness to treat prostate cancer and improvements to reduce side effects. The differences between the Ablatherm and Sonablate that once existed in procedure, are now becoming similar such as both have 3D imaging and continuous imaging whereas the Ablatherm did not have continuous imaging. The Ablatherm treated the whole prostate at once whereas the Sonablate would divide the prostate into three zones--anterior, middle and prosterior and each zone would be divided into two blocks. The Ablatherm is not doing the same but only having the three zones. The Sonablate has improved its probes so as to be able to have only one block in the zone unless the prostate is quite large.
So all in all they seem to be so close to each other except in minor differences in esthetics. The Ablathem has the patient on his right side and the Sonablate has the patient on his back with his feet up in stirrups. The Ablatherm requires that the patient have a sedative which put him to sleep while for the Sonablate the patient can chose not to be sedatated. Both require the patient to have a spinal.

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