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. ...
British doctors are testing a new prostate cancer treatment
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »British doctors are finding high-intensity focused ultrasounds or Hi-Fu destroys cancer cells without serious side effects and they now are testing a new treatment that uses the power of sound to kill prostate cancer. Traditional treatments like surgery and radiation can ...
Ultrasound may be more precise when obliterates prostate tumours
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 Posted in hifu, radiation therapy | No Comments »Surgeons at the North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke say the high-powered beam of ultrasound is so precise that it obliterates tumours without damaging delicate surrounding tissues, including the nerves that are critical for male sexual function. Conventional surgery or radiotherapy leave ...
Controversy in the appropriate use of HIFU
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »Recently, a UK-based team working at a major London teaching hospital reported very poor 2-year follow-up data after treating a series of 31 newly diagnosed and 12 salvage patients with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) using second-generation Ablatherm equipment. They stated ...
Ultrasound prostate cancer device touted
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »A new ultrasound treatment for prostate cancer is showing promise of stopping the disease without causing impotence or incontinence, observers say. The still-experimental treatment, called high-intensity focused ultrasound, uses the sonic technology to heat the prostate to the point of killing ...
Transrectal ultrasound: impact on clinical staging
Monday, May 25th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »New data just published by a group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) suggests that, in the current era, transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) provides an accurate means to assess the clinical (pre-treatment) stage of a man’s prostate cancer. Most clinicians ...