Trip to Lyon, France, HIFU for Prostate Cancer

This thursday I took a plane to Lyon, to visit Dr. Murat and Dr. Gelet, both world experts in the treatment of localised prostate cancer with HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound). I went to theatre to witness two HIFU cases, one for a primary prostate cancer (recently diagnosed), and the second one was a patient who was treated with radiotherapy and this treatment failed, and recurred to HIFU as a salvage treatment.
Next tuesday we will perform our first case in Madrid, we will have the first permanent HIFU device installed in Spain and we will offer this treatment option to our patients, and the possibility of getting trained to those urologists who want to learn. It is an impressive technology, that allows prostate cancer to be treated with minimal discomfort and with a lower risk of complications or secuelae.

This video shows how the technique is performed.