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Palo Vol. XXXIX, Number 51 Q September 21, 2018 Alto Large-scale landlords must give renters moving funds Page 5 www.PaloAltoOnline.comwww.PaloAltoO nli ne.com INSIDE tonight at the Baylands Pulse 14 Transitions 15 Spectrum 16 Eating Out 21 Movies 22 Q News Moms, others rally support for Christine Blasey Ford Page 5 Q A&E Art Center nurtures ‘The Art of Parenthood’ Page 18 Q Home Housing market shows signs of chilling Page 23 Paid for by Stanford Health Care “If it weren’t for Stanford, I don’t think I’d have the quality of life I’ve had over the past year. I’m good as new, if not better than new.” —Ron Focal Therapy For Prostate Cancer Gives Patient but perhaps for whom removing the entire prostate is too aggressive, he said. Full Recovery, With Fewer Side Effects “What we have found with HIFU is lower rates of erectile dysfunction, lower rates of urinary Ron received a cancer diagnosis the day before his 58th birthday. incontinence, quicker recovery and minimal pain,” It all started with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, a common blood said Sonn. “To be able to offer this treatment test given to men to identify issues with their prostate. “It wasn’t super to a man in his 50s or 60s is very gratifying.” high, but it was high enough that a biopsy was recommended,” said Ron, For Ron, traveling a few hours to Stanford meant receiving the most advanced standard of care a commercial real estate business owner in Lodi. “Everything progressed available. “Quality of life was the most important pretty quickly after I got my results. Within a month or two, I had thing,” he said. “I’m lucky to have benefited from this cutting-edge technology.” to start making some choices and the options weren’t really appealing.” On the day of surgery, Ron recalls waking up An avid runner, bicyclist and skier, Ron was is already approved and available to patients in as if nothing happened. “Yolanda and I went out worried that surgery or radiation to treat his Europe and Asia, but is undergoing FDA approval to dinner that night,” he said. Having a catheter prostate cancer would put his active lifestyle in the U.S. in place for seven days after surgery was the most in jeopardy. But not treating his cancer could discomfort he experienced. “Th e day the catheter With HIFU, ultrasound energy is aimed from potentially shorten his life by decades. came out, I started running again,” said Ron. outside of the body, and concentrated within “It was that easy. If it weren’t for Stanford, I don’t Standard treatment, which includes surgery or a target deep inside the body. “Th e technology is think I’d have the quality of life I’ve had over the radiation, can cause erectile dysfunction and something akin to taking a magnifying lens and past year. I’m good as new, if not better than new.” incontinence, side effects that can last a lifetime. focusing sunlight onto a leaf—you can basically Prostate cancer is typically discovered later in life, destroy the tissue that’s at that target and the Like many people who face a cancer diagnosis, when many men are less physically and sexually surrounding structures are left intact,” said Ron has a newfound appreciation for the simple active, and the benefits of treatment can outweigh Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD, assistant professor things in life—the runs with his dogs, savoring the risks of side effects. But for men as young of radiology. HIFU is possible at Stanford because good food. “Next year, I turn 60,” he said. “People as Ron, side effects can factor heavily into the of the merger of two technologies—MRI and tell me I look better than before. You start to take treatment decision. focused ultrasound. “We can see the target on the a little better care of yourself, appreciate what MR scanner, and then use those real-time images you have and what you may have lost.” “We didn’t make a decision very quickly,” said with the patient on the table to plan the treatment Yolanda, his wife of 34 years. Instead, they and see where we want to aim the energy,” he said. U.S. News & World researched treatment options and doctors. Report A friend recommended Stanford, and suggested HIFU for prostate cancer is only offered at recognizes, they see Geoffrey Sonn, MD, an assistant a handful of centers in the United States, and again, Stanford Health professor of urology. it is not recommended for every patient. Th ere Care in the top 10 best are some men with small, non-aggressive cancers hospitals in the nation. “Dr. Sonn indicated that Stanford was looking into who benefit from no immediate treatment, just a new kind of focal therapy, where they treat just observation, said Sonn. Conversely, men with Discover our patient stories on part of the prostate gland, instead of removing larger, particularly aggressive cancers may have the entire gland, with better outcomes in terms better long-term outcomes from a robotic radical StanfordHealthNow.org of fewer negative side effects,” said Ron. “So that prostatectomy or internal or external radiation. was appealing to me, obviously.” As Sonn explained, “HIFU gives us an intermediate Stanford has been offering MRI-guided high- step between no treatment and really aggressive intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment that can have lifelong side effects.” treatment of prostate cancer as part of a clinical It is ideally suited for a man with an intermediate trial for the past three years. 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Residents that time, Scharff had indicated with the majority. of the historic building at 488 that he would oppose the emer- n an abrupt change of course, Greg Tanaka dissenting, the coun- Just like the prior version of University Ave. are now facing gency law, dooming it to failure, the Palo Alto City Council cil voted to strip away from the the law, the one that the coun- a Nov. 12 eviction deadline, and unless the accompanying perma- I approved on Monday night a new law a controversial clause cil passed Monday only applies their plight has revived the city’s nent law included a “means test.” law ensuring that tenants facing that limited relocation assistance to housing developments with tense, yearlong debate over tenant He had initially proposed limiting eviction will receive relocation to residents who make below 50 or more units. These include protection. assistance that landlords must pro- assistance, regardless of their in- the area median income, which President Hotel, a 75-unit apart- The initial ordinance was ap- vide — which ranges from $7,000 come levels. is about $90,000 for a one-per- ment building in downtown Palo proved on Aug. 27 in conjunction By an 8-1 vote, with Councilman son household. That clause was Alto that is slated to revert to with an “emergency law,” which (continued on page 11) DEVELOPMENT Design approved for new police headquarters Long-awaited project reaches critical milestone by Gennady Sheyner alo Alto’s decades-long quest to construct a new P public-safety building reached a critical milestone Thursday morning, when the city’s Architectural Review Board approved the design for the new civic building in the Cal- ifornia Avenue Business District.

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