On Focus

Joining me today is Gemma Harris, a physiotherapist who specialises in helping people regain strength and confidence following a cancer diagnosis and treatment. Before establishing the Wellbeing and Rehab Collective in Surrey where she currently practices, Gemma was part of the exercise medicine team at Genesis Care, an internationally recognised group of cancer care specialists.  She’s here today...

Joining On Focus today is Dr Francesco Giganti, Associate Professor and honorary Consultant in Radiology at University College London.  Francesco is an acknowledged leader in researching imaging of the prostate, and in identifying new approaches to improve its accuracy in diagnosis and its effectiveness in treatment. He has co-authored over 200 publications reporting on investigations into multipl...

Elvin Box, a popular and passionate advocate for men with prostate cancer joins this episode of onFocus. Diagnosed in 2016, Elvin is a Movember UK ambassador and has written and campaigned extensively on a number of issues impacting men and their families as they experience a diagnosis of prostate cancer and navigate treatment options. He’s here today at the end of Mens Health Week to share his pe...

Marc Laniado, Consultant Urologist at with The Focal Therapy Clinic and a leading innovator in imaging led diagnostics and targeted treatments for prostate cancer, joins On Focus in this episode. Marc has been a vocal advocate for the rights of patients to be informed about their treatment choices from his base at Frimley Health, where he is prostate cancer lead at Wexham Park Hospital. He’s also...

Joining OnFocus today is Oliver Kemp, CEO of Prostate Cancer Research in the UK and Director of PCR inc in the USA, whose missions Oliver describes as “to use our deep understanding of patient priorities and the research ecosystem to enable and implement the innovations that have greatest potential for impact, and to help scientists forge the connections and collaborations which will keep their wo...

Joining OnFocus today is Alan Doherty, Clinical Director at the Birmingham Prostate Clinic, and recently voted one of the UK’s top ten prostate cancer specialists in a national poll of consultant urologists published in the Daily Mail . Alan has been an innovator, advocate and dedicated practitioner of precision treatments for prostate cancer, and joined the Focal Therapy Clinic last year to...

Marc has been a vocal advocate for the rights of patients to be informed about their treatment choices from his base at Frimley Health, where he is prostate cancer lead at Wexham Park Hospital. He’s also a dedicated practitioner in optimising treatment choices for patients, and has built a reputation in identifying and delivering the right treatment for each patient, based on precise diagnostics a...

Brian Bishop joins OnFocus to discuss his experience with NanoKnife treatment for prostate cancer. Brian is 77 and lives in Virginia Water since retiring from a career in the airline industry, and was diagnosed with prostate cancer in May 2022. A few months later he was treated by TFTC Consultant Urologist Marc Laniado with a form of focal therapy that uses electric current to ablate cancerous tis...

Graham Pipe, a recent patient at the Focal Therapy Clinic who underwent HIFU treatment with Consultant Urologist Tim Dudderidge following a diagnosis of localised prostate cancer, joins OnFocus to discuss the process he went through to seek an alternative treatment which would maintain his active lifestyle. Age 70 and recently retired from a career as a Chartered Building Surveyor, Graham describe...

This episode’s interviewee is Arvin George, Assistant Professor of Urology at the University of Michigan School of Medicine in the USA. A Urologic Surgeon specializing in the diagnosis and management of genitourinary cancers, Professor George’s  research interests include minimally invasive and image-guided treatments, functional prostate imaging and focal therapy for prostate cancer, and he...

Consultant Urologist Tim Dudderidge, who works with TFTC and is based at University Hospital Southampton, joins OnFocus today. Tim is an innovator in focal therapy and has coinvestigated most of the clinical trials and studies that have built the evidence base for focal therapy and advanced its adoption and practice. He has recently completed his appointment as Clinical Champion for Prostate Cance...

Joining me today is Almar van Loon, Director of Customer Success at Quantib, a technology company that creates products to support radiologists using artificial intelligence. Almar has a background in clinical radiology, and has worked with Quantib since 2018 as an application specialist supporting radiologists and other clinicians on improving their workflow. One of the products Almar has worked...

Marc Laniado, Consultant Urologist at The Focal Therapy Clinic and a leading innovator in imaging led diagnostics and targeted treatments for prostate cancer, joins OnFocus to discuss prostate imaging and reporting. Marc has been a dedicated pracititoner and vocal advocate for the rights of patients to be informed about their treatment choices from his base at Frimley Health, where he is pros...

Joining me today is Dr Rafael Sanchez-Salas, an emerging leader in the field of focal therapy for localised prostate cancer. Trained as a urologist in his native Venezuela, Dr Sanchez-Salas led research on robotic surgery and focal therapy for over ten years at the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris Paris, and is now a member of the faculty at McGill University in Montreal where he is leading research...

Joining me today is Chris Lewis, founder and CEO of Chris’s Cancer Community, an influential and impactful online community of cancer patients, recoverers, and those affected by cancer. The community has a significant online following (over 35k followers on Twitter) and Chris has shared his unique and substantial knowledge on the daily experience of living with cancer with charities, government or...

This episode features Raj Nigam, Consultant Urologist at the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust and the Focal Therapy Clinic. Raj  is an andrologist with a special interest in the impact of prostate cancer treatment on sexual and mental health, and has spoken several times with On Focus about age-related implications of prostate cancer treatment. He’s here today to discuss a range of issues th...

Joining the podcast today is Alan Doherty, Clinical Director at the Birmingham Prostate Clinic, and recently voted one of the UK’s top ten prostate cancer specialists in a national poll of consultant urologists published in the Daily Mail . Alan has been an innovator, advocate and dedicated practitioner of precision treatments for prostate cancer, and joined the Focal Therapy Clinic last year...

Consultant Urologist Tim Dudderidge joins OnFocus to discuss recent trends in technology and research. Tim works with the Focal Therapy Clinic and is based at University Hospital Southampton. He’s an innovator in focal therapy and has coinvestigated most of the clinical trials and studies that have built the evidence base for focal therapy and advanced its adoption and practice. Last yea...

Joining On Focus today is Grant Evatt, a veteran army commando who now practices law in a firm he founded to specialise in personal injury cases. He has coordinated the Military Special Interest group for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), and is a recognised  authority in military claims. He has won millions of pounds for his injured clients and their grieving families and is...

Joining On Focus today is Stuart McIntyre, Director of Marketing & Business Development at AngioDynamics, developer of a new approach to focal therapy called NanoKnife. It is currently running a clinical trial called PRESERVE, described as a Pivotal Study of the NanoKnife System for Ablation of Prostate Tissue in an Intermediate-Risk Patient Population and which will evaluate the use of AngioD...

Martin Wells, a campaigner, fundraiser and support group leader from Lancashire, joins On Focus to discuss what it’s like going through prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment as a gay man. He set up two support groups to help men and their partners address these challenges  - Out with Prostate Cancer and Shaping Prostate Cancer Literacy. Out with Prostate Cancer https://outwithprostatecancer...

Joining me today is Mish Middelmann, aka “Recovering Man”, the title of the popular blog he produces on his experience with prostate cancer. Mish is an organic veggie gardener, prostate cancer survivor and convenor of the global Recovering Men prostate cancer support group. His blog at www.recoveringman.net  very candidly chronicles his own prostate cancer journey and those of others affected...

Today’s OnFocus features Michael Hoey, founder of Francis Medical in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a veteran healthcare entrepreneur  with a deep passion for helping men with prostate cancer. Prior to establishing Francis Medical in 2018 to focus on new treatments for prostate cancer, Michael co-founded NxThera to develop and commercialize urology applications of a vapor platform technology that...

Dr Art Rastinehad joins On Focus to discuss how focal therapy is being implemented in the US, and how US and UK clinicians and researchers are collaborating to advance its development. Dr Art Rastinehad is Director for Prostate Cancer at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute in New York State and the Vice Chair of Urology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.  He trained at the N...

Alphonso Archer joins On Focus in this episode to discuss how his prostate cancer diagnosis changed his life in a very positive way and inspired him to reclaim his passion for music. Alphonso, a former IT sales professional decided, after a prostate cancer diagnosis in 2016, to pursue his lifelong love and passion for music and trained to be a music therapist. He is c...