Despite the high cure rates of patients diagnosed and treated with prostate cancer, there is still room for improvement in management of these patients. This includes the identification of patients at highest risk for progression, the usage of focal therapies in low risk disease, and the continued improvement on established modalities. Through these avenues, the morbidity associated with treatment for prostate cancer can be vastly reduced, and thus patient outcomes improved. This article reviews the current treatment modalities and future directions for the treatment of localised prostate cancer.
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