Mayo Clinic Use Of Laser For PCa?

My daughter called last night all excited because her boss has two family members who were treat for PCa at Mayo using a laser and she wants me to go through that procedure. Gotta give her an 'A' for caring about me at least :)

So... I did some Googling searches and didn't find much. I found info on using a Green Light laser for BPH, but the only mention of using a laser for PCa was this...

http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2010-jax/6006.html

I also found the asme information published by several other sources. about two-thirds down the article it mentions Dr. David Woodrum at Mayo in Rochester, MN using an MRI-Guided laser...

[quote]At the March meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology, Dr. Woodrum, presented results from the first known cases of using MRI-guided laser ablation to treat prostate tumors. He said then that the safe completion of four clinical cases using the technique to treat prostate cancer in patients who had failed surgery "demonstrates this technology's potential."

The article was from late 2010 and it sounds like the procedure was in trials at that time. I can't find anything newer. Is anyone familiar with this procedure?

Thanks...

...ron

Thanks, Doug... I've already asked her to get me the doc's name.

According to my daughter the doctor at Mayo is Dr. Warren Ketterling. The Mayo site lists him as in the general internal medicine department, so he may have had someone else involved. Since it's Good Friday today I'll try to reach him on Monday.