Prostate Cancer Treatments
Through Advanced Diagnostics we pin-point the least invasive approach to your prostate cancer treatment
Dr. Scionti created his Prostate Cancer Navigator as a concise visual roadmap to help you understand your treatment choices. Thanks to Dr. Scionti’s Advanced Diagnostics, you will already know where your disease lies on the risk category scale. The Navigator then lays out prostate cancer treatments in the order of invasiveness. Finally, the Navigator shows the quality of life side effects risks, ranging from noninvasive to invasive treatments.
Click here to view the Dr. Scionti PCA Navigator
Which treatment is ideal for you? Dr. Scionti has two simple principles:
- Your ideal treatment matches the risk of your cancer with the invasiveness of the treatment.
- Your ideal treatment balances side effects with prostate cancer cure.
Prostate cancer ideally should not be OVER TREATED, nor should aggressive high-risk prostate cancer be UNDER TREATED. The Scionti Prostate Center specializes in minimally invasive approaches such as High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU), Cryotherapy (freezing) and Targeted Focal therapy with HIFU, Cryotherapy, and MRI guided Focal Laser Ablation. Men who have small slowing growing tumors as revealed by Advanced Diagnostics may be excellent candidates for Active Surveillance and Dr. Scionti will monitor you through advanced imaging and advanced diagnostics until a future time when treatment may be needed.
Our Advanced Diagnostic approach clearly identifies patients who really need treatment and allows Dr. Scionti to create a personalized and customized treatment and follow-up plan. Since we do not use a cookie-cutter approach, your visit to the Scionti Prostate Center provides you with Your Personalized Pathway to Prostate Cancer Care. We focus on effective treatments that preserve your quality of life.
Dr. Scionti performs prostate cancer treatments without major incisions or radiation
Only a full assessment can determine what type of treatment is the best fit
HIFU
Focal High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is a therapeutic technology that concentrates ultrasound energy to create high levels of heat at a specific target. It is used to destroy or ablate targeted tissues without a ecting the surrounding healthy tissues.
TULSA-PRO
In 2020, Dr. Scionti was the first in North America to perform an FDA-approved Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation of Prostate Tissue (TULSA-Pro) procedure. Unlike HIFU, TULSA-Pro is performed in the MRI suite, under real-time MRI.
Cryotherapy
Cryotherapy involves freezing and killing cancer cells in the prostate gland. During the procedure, thin needles are inserted into the prostate, and a freezing gas is passed through these needles to create ice balls that destroy the cancerous tissue.
Dr. Scionti has the largest cumulative prostate ablative treatment experience in North America