After 18 months we are closing further comment on this column. We encourage you to continue your conversations within the social network, where there is a specific discussion group on HIFU which we encourage you to use and which does not require me to approve your comments every time you post them.

We would also point out that your discussion on the social network will be far more visible to far more people than the discussion you are having here, which would therefore increase the visibility of your personal opinions on HIFU.

SteveE, another undetectable PSA! Right on!

I understand that there are new machines. The Ablatherm has incorporated a manual override and the Sonablate has a computer that “tells” the doctor if all the tissue is gone; the two of you are proof that it works and works well.

I thank the doctors who are the pioneers and left the USA to continue progress with HIFU. Sitting around waiting for clinical trials would have just set the technology back. Oh yes, that’s just what they wanted.

Side effects or scare tactics, I have several friends who had HIFU, they had/have no side effects.

Your story is the best I’ve ever heard. HIFU just gets better by the day. I hope that you post this at other cancer forums. More of us need to know that HIFU is an option, and well worth the money.

Many congratulations!!

Ron

Someone mentioned being afraid of going offshore for treatment, but International HIFU only uses the most perfect hospitals, and they send their own nurses, anesthesiologist, and a certified mechanic along to monitor the machine. It’s a top notch operation. Plus, you are guaranteed several American doctors in attendance learning the technique. The only foreign thing is the taxi to get you to the hospital, the nurse and a driver take you back to your hotel; they book The Atlantis in Nassau or the Westin in Puerto Vallarta.

Be great to hear updates from the rest of you.

Lucky guy Steve, that you didn’t need the TURP. Hope you didn’t wait too long to start on the Cialis, maybe increase your dosage if it isn’t responding, eh? Get the blood to flow.

The FDA has a “team of advisors,” not a “board of directors”, but they are doctors, and they make the decisions.

Did you have a TURP? I understand it’s au-regular with the Ablatherm, did that give you any pain or trouble? It’s given at the same time as the HIFU, right?

He “took” the right nerve bundle? Was it treated with HIFU, or surgery? I didn’t know they could go outside the gland like that. Man, this HIFU can do anything.

Terrific PSA, I’ll bet you feel like Shaun White feels today!