Prostate Ablation Using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound: A Literature Review of the Potential Role for Patient Preference Information

The lack of long-term high intensity focused ultrasound oncological data in an American population has brought new challenges to prostate cancer stakeholders, including clinicians, patients and the FDA. Patient preference information from future patient studies on high intensity focused ultrasound could provide additional information to patients, clinicians, and current and prospective device developers. In addition, it can be used by regulators in benefit-risk evaluations of this class of treatment devices.