ExAblate Robotic Acoustic Surgery system used for prostate cancer treatment
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Posted in hifu | No Comments »InSightec Ltd., the global leader in MR guided focused ultrasound technology announced today 31th of August 2010 that its ExAblate(R) system has been used for the first time for the treatment of prostate cancer patients. Accoeding to the statement, seven patients ...
HCG adds HIFU, a minimally invasive procedure, to treat prostrate cancer
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in hifu | No Comments »HealthCare Global Enterprises Limited (HCG), South Asia's largest cancer care network which has been pioneering non-invasive treatment protocols in cancer treatment, today added High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) - an acoustic ablation technique - to its offering portfolio for treatment ...
HIFU procedure awaiting approval in US
Monday, May 17th, 2010 Posted in hifu | No Comments »For many men worldwide, prostate cancer treatment often leaves them with the potential of being impotent and the potential of incontinency, but a new procedure is producing the same results without the side effects. This new treatment is called High Intensity ...
Post-treatment pathology of the prostate after first-line HIFU
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 Posted in hifu | 1 Comment »High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment is a novel minimally invasive therapeutic option for patients with localized prostate cancer. Little is known about the histological findings in prostate biopsies upon HIFU treatment. One of the unknown factors in the use of ...
New prostate cancer treatment offers fewer side effects
Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 Posted in hifu | 1 Comment »For many men, treatment for prostate cancer often leaves them experiencing impotence and incontinence, but a new procedure available outside the United States is producing the same results without the side effects. It seems that a new treatment called High Intensity ...
HIFU as salvage therapy for radiation failure
Saturday, April 17th, 2010 Posted in hifu | No Comments »One of the proposed uses for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been as a treatment option for men with a rising PSA after first-line treatment with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). A new study at Oslo University Hospital, Norway, offers data ...
HIFU in the management of prostate cancer
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 Posted in hifu | No Comments »HIFU is commonly used in conjunction with transurethral resection of the prostate in order to reduce prostate gland size and facilitate effective tissue destruction. To destroy the tissue, HIFU works in two ways, known as thermal and mechanical effects. According to ...
HIFU success depends by surgeon’s experience
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Posted in hifu | No Comments »A recent study at Department of Urology and Andrology, CHU Reims, Reims, France, aimed to report on technical incidents and early and late complications occurring in high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment of patients with localized prostate cancer. The study team ...
Non-invasive option for less advanced prostate cancer
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »HIFU is a new treatment for prostate cancer option for younger men who have less advanced forms of the disease. HIFU stands for High Intensity Focused Ultrasound. It is a non-invasive treatment that uses ultrasound waves to focus in on ...
Sound waves able to treat prostate cancer offering fewer side effects
Saturday, July 4th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »According to the results of a UK study published in the British Journal of Cancer, an experimental cancer therapy for prostate cancer, known as High-Intensity-Focused-Ultrasound or HIFU, may be able to treat men without surgery and offer fewer side effects. ...