By Henry Martin For MailonlinePublished: 08:40 EDT, 19 September 2021 | Updated: 08:40 EDT, 19 September 2021Prostate cancer patients could be cured in just one week instead of a month with targeted high-dose radiotherapy sessions. There are nearly 50,000 diagnoses of prostate cancer each year, making it the most common form of cancer among British men. One option for patients is surgery to remove the prostate, but it leaves many men with erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence. Another treatment is radiotherapy, which involves blasting the prostate with X-ray beams that can destroy tumour cells – but there are trade-offs. Nearly 900 patients were recruited for the trial, funded by The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.

Source: The Nation September 19, 2021 12:56 UTC