Tim Dudderidge, Consultant Urologist at Southampton University NHS Trust and the Focal Therapy Clinic joins OnFocus to discuss how clinical trials are designed to advance innovations in clinical practice and how they ultimately bring choice and benefit to patients.

Tim discusses his involvement in the CHRONOS trials which will investigate outcomes of men udergoing focal therapy vs surgery for localised prostate cancer. He  also explains how the a registry of men who have received HIFU treatment in the UK is providing a valuable data resource for statistical comparisons of treatments for men with localised prostate cancer, and highlights this week’s publication of a landmark study showing comparable outcomes for men undergoing focal therapy and prostatectomy.

CHRONOS trial:

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04049747

https://imperialprostate.org.uk/chronos/

Focal Therapy v Prostatectomy study:

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