Thomas J. Polascik
Editor

2013

The fi rst reports using focal therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer began to appear in the medical literature around the turn of this century. By 2005, a handful of single center series were published, however focal therapy still remained a concept that did not seem to provoke much discussion. In 2006, we entertained the idea of hosting an international focal therapy workshop at Duke University in an attempt to garner the best minds in academia and industry to discuss research and trials to propel the fi eld forward.