New study suggests that salvage HIFU after EBRT is “a high-risk procedure”
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 Posted in hifu, radiation therapy | No Comments »A new article reports data from two centers on experience with whole-gland high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) salvage therapy for local recurrence following external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). The authors conclude that salvage whole-gland HIFU is a high-risk procedure. Although its use ...
HIFU: New prostate cancer treatment
Thursday, April 14th, 2011 Posted in hifu | No Comments »Doctors at University College Hospital in London hope a new form of treatment for the prostate cancer will reduce the risk of harmful side effects caused by current treatments. If a cancer develops surgeons can remove the whole prostate gland or ...
New ultrasonic treatment for prostate cancer
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 Posted in hifu | No Comments »DOCTORS in Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and the National Cancer Centre have come up with a new treatment for prostate cancer that does not involve surgery or radiation therapy. Instead, it uses ultrasonic waves which converge on the tumour without affecting the ...
Control as opposed to curative treatment of low risk, localized prostate cancer
Sunday, October 10th, 2010 Posted in hifu, hormone therapy, prostate cancer, prostate cryotherapy, prostatectomy, radiation therapy, watchful waiting | No Comments »Historically, “success” in the treatment of localized prostate cancer was the elimination of all evidence of cancer from the patient’s prostate and other nearby tissues — through radical surgery or radiation therapy of some type. But the increasing acceptance of active ...
HIFU under clinical trials
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 Posted in hifu | No Comments »Because it doesn't harm the rest of the prostate, HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound) has fewer side effects than standard treatments like surgery and radiation. Right now clinical trials for HIFU are for patients whose prostate cancer has come back. But ...
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 | No Comments »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 | No Comments »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 ...