ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2022
High-Intensity Focused-Ultrasound Focal Therapy Versus Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: A Comparison of Oncological and Functional Outcomes in Low- and Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients.
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- Evaluating less-invasive strategies for localized prostate cancer: a comparative meta-analysis on high-intensity focused ultrasound versus radical prostatectomy.International urology and nephrology · 2026Pooled it
- Comparison of total robotic distal gastrectomy and robot-assisted distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Pooled it
- Comparative study of HIFU partial gland ablation and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer: an evidence-based approach.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Pooled it
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- 10-year oncological outcomes of EBRT versus HIFU for stage II prostate cancer: a multicenter Chang Gung research database (CGRD) study with inverse-probability-of-treatment weighting (IPTW) analysis.International urology and nephrology · 2026Article
- Review
- Urinary Metabolome Study for Monitoring Prostate Cancer Recurrence Following Radical Prostatectomy.Cancers · 2025Article
- High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation for Primary or Salvage Prostate Cancer Therapy: Initial Outcomes in the Veteran Healthcare Setting.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- High-intensity focused ultrasound strategies for treating prostate cancer.Asian journal of andrology · 2024Review
- Win ratio analysis of short-term clinical outcomes of focal therapy and robot-assisted radical prostatectomy for the patients with localized prostate cancer.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Therapeutic ultrasound transducer technology and monitoring techniques: a review with clinical examples.International journal of hyperthermia : the official journal of European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, North American Hyperthermia Group · 2024Review
- Immune checkpoint inhibition: a future guided by radiology.The British journal of radiology · 2023Review
- Minimally invasive treatment of cirrhotic secondary hypersplenism with high-intensity focused ultrasound.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
To compare oncological and functional outcomes of high-intensity focused-ultrasound (HIFU) focal therapy (FT) versus laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) in patients treated for low- or intermediate-risk prostate cancer (PCa), we retrospectively analyzed data of consecutive patients comprising 30 men, who underwent HIFU-FT, and 96 men who underwent LRP, in an academic center. Oncological outcomes were assessed based on the follow-up prostate-specific antigen values. We used the International Index of Erectile Function short form score to assess erectile function (EF). Urinary continence status was defined based on the number of pads used per day. Median follow-up was 12.5 and 19.1 months in the LRP and HIFU-FT groups, respectively. The effects were computed after propensity score matching and expressed as average treatment effect (ATE). Compared to LRP, HIFU-FT was associated with increased risk of treatment failure (ATE 0.103-0.164, depending on definition,
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