Modern focused radiation therapy for prostate cancer offers cure rates equivalent to surgery, with quality of life being an equally or more important factor for patients.

“but typically the number one thing we see is uh patients who don't want to deal with diapers and for the most part although uh incontinence is still described uh to some degree in the literature in my personal experience I don't think I've seen a single patient who came in continent who left with anything less than that there's no pads there's no nothing um and then of course also being uh uh you know with our as I talked about with breast cancer we can also focus very precisely on the prostate itself so the dose to the penile bulb the dose to the rectum the dose to the pro to the uh bladder are so low now that uh the side effect profile is essentially zero from a radiation standpoint”