Jewish General Hospital physicians hail medical procedures for prostate cancer patients

Physicians astatine nan Jewish General Hospital are hailing caller surgical procedures they judge will amended attraction for prostate cancer patients.

Alex Brzezinski, who likes to support successful shape, is 1 of them. The 71 year-old plays tennis 3 times a week successful summation to different sporting activities.

“I consciousness good, could still suffer a fewer pounds,” he joked.

So he keeps active, gladsome that his life hasn’t changed overmuch contempt undergoing curen for prostate crab past year. That’s acknowledgment successful part, his doctors say, to procedures that are changing nan measurement physicians dainty immoderate forms of prostate cancer.

“This is simply a curen for localized prostate crab that is unilateral,” explained Dr. Maurice Anidjar, urology section main astatine nan Jewish General Hospital.

“You usage a root of power that tin beryllium precocious strength focused ultrasound electricity, and others, to destruct nan broadside that is affected by nan important cancer.”

The 2 procedures being utilized astatine nan Jewish General Hospital are irreversible electroporation (IRE) arsenic good arsenic nan precocious strength focused ultrasound (HIFU). The advantage — nan full prostate doesn’t person to beryllium treated, arsenic happens pinch different forms of treatment, Anidjar pointed out.

“Most of nan clip (it involves) nan ablation of nan prostate aliases nan radiation of nan full prostate, and this induces broadside effects that tin impact importantly nan value of life of nan patient, for illustration prolonged incontinence aliases delayed aliases partial nonaccomplishment of intersexual function” he noted.

According to him, pinch nan IRE and nan HIFU procedures, location are nary broadside effects, .

“I don’t want my life to alteration — it’s very good,” said Brzezinski, who had nan IRE. “I don’t peculiarly want thing to alteration astir it.” So he was happy to spell pinch it.

Jewish General Hospital officials opportunity that institution is nan only 1 successful Quebec to usage nan IRE — and 1 of fewer successful Canada. They’ve been utilizing HIFU since 2014, but successful 2022 nan exertion was “substantially upgraded pinch nan acquisition of caller and much technically demanding equipment,” according to a infirmary property release.

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Doctors present judge some procedures are game-changers since truthful galore men are affected by nan illness.

“(The disease) is very prevalent,” observed Dr. Rafael Sanchez-Salas, an MUHC urologist. “There’s a precocious number of diagnoses and it’s not only based connected a peculiar characteristic. It’s a truth of having group aging.”

According to nan Canadian Cancer Society, prostate crab is nan starring crab among Canadian men. They estimate that successful 2024, 27, 900 Canadian men will beryllium diagnosed — 22 per cent of each caller crab cases — and that 5, 000 men will dice from nan disease, representing 11 per cent of crab deaths among men this year.

Brzezinski is happy his crab was caught successful time.