DENVER -- Targeted focal treatment for prostate cancer is moving from the Ice Age to "Star Wars" at the University of Colorado Hospital.

Instead of freezing tumors, doctors are now frying them with lasers.

Dr. Al Barqawi has taken his 3D mapping biopsy technique and combined it with MRI technology and lasers to kill cancer tumors in the prostate without killing the prostate.

Barqawi performed the first-ever targeted laser prostate surgery last December.

This new treatment shortens the recovery process by a few days and the patients have fewer complaints about side effects.

Duke Altschuler is a 58-year-old businessman who now converts cars to electric power.

He signed up for Barqawi's targeted laser program after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, the same disease his father died of at age 60.

The actual "frying" of each of Altschuler's tumors took less than 2 minutes, and the recovery is quick.

Altschuler will go back for his first checkup in three months.

Since Altschuler works with electric cars, he says it only seems right that he should have his prostate tumors "zapped."

For more about the new prostate cancer procedure, visit alprostate.com

To learn more about Altschuler's electric cars, visit DukesGarage.com