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“Welcome other analysis and personal experiences.”

I’m 57. I did not have cancer, but I did have an enlarged prostate with severe urinary difficulties; urgency, weak stream, etc. The treatment I had was originally developed to treat cancer. I don’t know if it is licensed to treat cancer by the FDA.
I had a single treatment of audio frequency radiation in a doctor’s office. It shrank my prostate about 80%. The way it works is: cancer cells propagate like mad and they don’t always make new veins and arteries, which provide cooling. A cell can survive many, many cells away from a vein or artery because of oxygen diffusion. The air contains 20% oxygen, which about what a cell next to an artery sees. Cells only need a few percent to survive and multiply.
The treatment “antenna” is inserted down the penis’ shaft and it is cooled. A thermometer is inserted in the prostate and the power is turned on. It feels HOT. The cancerous cells aren’t getting the same cooling as the cells next to arteries and veins. They cook. Over time the body absorbs them.
The equipment is very expensive and you can only get this treatment in big cities with significant older populations. All the local doctors were still doing full prostate removal, which was what two doctors said they’d do. Neither offered or mentioned the audio radiation treatment. When I asked they said they didn’t think it would give good results. I drove 300 miles and stayed in St. Pete, Florida for two weeks to have the procedure there.
I could not be happier. I can ride four hours in a car and not even think about the need to void. All other prostate functions, except (ah-hem…) volume, remain the same.
It took about three office visits to do the requisite tests. The procedure itself takes only 20 minutes, is done in the office and the only drugs are oral low-dose pain medications. Recovery takes a week, but I had it done over Christmas and the office was closed so I wore a catheter for two weeks instead of one.

Thanx. never heard of it. I’ll ask my urologist about it.

See my 32. I had a catheter on and off (mostly on) for 5 weeks. Finally 2 weeks after the surgery, I could urinate like a race horse. But the tissue had cancer.

I’ll say one thing about the catheter, urinate as frequently as you want. In fact, continuously. Empty the bag a few times a day and watch long movies without intermission.