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Vanquish Water Vapor Ablation for Prostate Cancer — who is a candidate?
Quick answer
Vanquish is a focal therapy in which steam destroys a targeted area of the prostate.
Candidates can include men whose cancer is Gleason 6 or Gleason 7 and who want a reduced chance of leakage and erection problems. Our urologists use anesthesia and do it in our surgery centers, and the procedure lasts about an hour. A catheter goes home with you for three to seven days.
Burning and urinary irritation are common at first. Because the treatment is newer, its long-term results are still under study. Follow-up then means PSA tests and MRI, and sometimes biopsies.
Care for Dawson County
Dawsonville families meet our urologists at the Cumming Clinic, 4150 Deputy Bill Cantrell Memorial Rd, and surgical care is provided at our Johns Creek Clinic & Surgery Center. Reading up first can make that first appointment more useful.
Request a visit at Advanced Urology to go over your options. Call 678-344-8900 from Dawsonville to set a date. Book online
How a candidacy conversation is run in this clinic
We review the biopsy, the MRI, and what you want to protect. Vanquish is a focal, water-vapor option Advanced Urology discusses for selected men with prostate cancer; that option is not a fit for every cancer grade. The consult is at the Cumming Clinic, with later procedures, if any, planned at the appropriate Advanced Urology facility.
When to book, and what to bring from prior visits
If Vanquish or another focal option has been mentioned, or if you are already on a surveillance schedule and want to know whether it is even relevant, call 678-344-8900 or book a visit and bring the MRI and pathology. Related official prostate-cancer videos are below.
Official prostate-cancer videos to sit beside a focal-therapy question
The official PSMA PET/CT explainer and a DocTalk with Dr. Nicholas Farber are official Advanced Urology videos about the wider prostate-cancer field. They do not, by themselves, say whether Vanquish is a match for your MRI.
A first conversation with our urologists is a short call or a booked visit away.