TFTC team contribute to landmark study showing oncological outcomes from focal therapy comparable to radical prostatectomy, Read Evidence,in the media and Recent Blog Post.

About Us

The Focal Therapy Clinic was established by three world-renowned practitioners of focal therapy – Tim Dudderidge, Marc Laniado and Raj Nigam, and they have been recently joined by the equally eminent, Alan Doherty. Alongside other industry experts and treatment providers such as Sonacare and NMS they have created The Focal Therapy Clinic to provide confidential help and advice to patients who should be considering focal therapy as part of their treatment options.

The Focal Therapy Clinic are about choice. Your choice in how your prostate cancer is treated. Because radical treatment can impact your urinary and sexual function for the rest of your life, while Active Surveillance may leave you feeling obligated to long-term patient status, our objective is for you to understand all your treatment options and how they may impact your life.

We offer men with low- to intermediate- risk prostate cancer access to focal therapy, and to the clinical innovators and pioneers of this ground-breaking treatment.

We believe that focal therapy is a powerful alternative to both surgery and Active Surveillance — offering effective cancer control while preserving sexual and urinary function in patients. These are often seen as a trade-off, and we have developed and supported an approach to managing prostate cancer that preserves patients overall quality of life.

We were formed by a group of clinicians and clinical service providers who have been at the forefront of advancing focal therapy in the UK for over ten years. Our clinicians have practised focal therapy with great success on hundreds of patients and are major contributors to clinical trials demonstrating its effectiveness.

Our service providers have brought the technology and expertise into hospitals and clinics allowing clinicians to offer focal therapy to their patients. They have been significant innovators in developing technology around precision diagnostics and nuanced treatments for prostate cancer, and have worked for over ten years with the NHS, private hospital groups BMI, Nuffield and Spire and insurers AXA/PPP, BUPA and Aviva to ensure that focal therapy is understood and made available as a treatment option to their patients.

“HIFU is something people need to be aware of – I believe this treatment should be more widely available and more widely promoted. It wasn’t something suggested to me as a possibility by my urologist and I actually raised it myself. I would recommend HIFU and in fact have recommended it to others.”

Keith (The Focal Therapy Clinic Patient)

Get In Touch

As a group of consultants we are passionate about all prostate cancer sufferers knowing about all of their treatment options.

Based upon the details that you know and can provide to us, we will send you a Plain English personalised preliminary suitability report for HIFU Focal Therapy treatment of your prostate cancer.

You can use the information we provide in your conversations with your existing NHS and/or private treatment consultant. Should you wish to talk with us further we would be grateful to help you, but there is absolutely no obligation for you to do so whatsoever.

Testimonials

The side effects were nothing major and have now cleared up, and the pain went away within a couple weeks – it was better than having your teeth out! When I was doing my research about treatment options after my diagnosis there was a lot of bad press and negativity: then I found HIFU and it was so reassuring to know that there was something out there that was less scary.

David - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

My conversation was very useful. At the time I hadn't been aware it was possible to get HIFU on the NHS, I understood it was only normal if you partook in a trial. I had a consultation with Mr Nigam where I learned he could have it done on the NHS.

David - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

My initial phone conversation was good and very clear about the possibilities and I felt happy about the idea of HIFU.

Viv - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

Just a short note Brian to thank you for your advice which is very much appreciated.

Keith - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

If it hadn’t been for you I wouldn’t have found Mr Dudderidge so I can’t thank you enough.

Vernon - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

I had felt concerned about undergoing hormone or radio therapy which is what he had been offered, and this concern was affirmed by my conversation with Brian, who recognised it was 'a hell of a thing to do'. I decided that HIFU sounded by far the best option.

Denis - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

I hadn’t wanted to have either several weeks of radiotherapy or to have my prostate out – my wife and I wanted to be able to continue to enjoy our life together as normal, and focal therapy was the best way for that.

Jim - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

I was so grateful that there was an alternative for me. You know for sure with hormone therapy/radiotherapy/full prostatectomy that you are not going to be back to normal. It gave me hope, and everything was realised that I wanted to be realised.

Jim - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

I found is I was reading something that says, you know, are you happy on active surveillance? Within two hours, I had filled in the online questionnaire. And it wasn't so very long before I got a call back from Brian.

Perry - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

HIFU is something people need to be aware of – I believe this treatment should be more widely available and more widely promoted. It wasn’t something suggested to me as a possibility by my urologist and I actually raised it myself. I would recommend HIFU and in fact have recommended it to others.

Keith - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

I was treated very professionally by the staff at The Focal Therapy Clinic and compared to the options I was offered here in Ireland it completely saved my quality of life. For that thank you.

Tom - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

Following my conversation with Brian I had a consultation with Mr Dudderidge at Spire clinic who recommended me to have radical robotic surgery, following CT scans. This has been successful so far. My decision was made following the expert advice of Mr Dudderidge and I am very pleased with all of the information and expertise in my treatment both from Brian and Mr Dudderidge.

Andrew - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

My treatment, and pre and post info, was great. I had opportunity to have HIFU and Tim was very positive in difficult times being the start of the pandemic. The result is so far very encouraging and I would recommend HIFU to anyone assuming they are in the right profile; indeed I have since to several friends.

Richard - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic

When I contacted FTC, Brian went through everything that can happen – it was good to speak to someone knowledgeable and empathetic. Talking to him opened my mind about what options there were.

Prostate Cancer Patient

I found Brian's information and advice to be excellent. I felt he was the kind of person I could call any time and that he helped me through the process.

Paul - Patient of The Focal Therapy Clinic