What newer treatments are available?
A. Cryotherapy (inserting a metal probe into the prostate tumour which freezes the tissue and kills the cells) and High Intensity Focused Ultrasound of HIFU (which causes localised heating inside the tumour that kills the cells) are available in some cancer hospitals. Although both of these treatments appear to be as effective in the short term as surgery or radiotherapy, their long-term effectiveness is not yet known.
