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 ...
The evolving potential of targeted focal therapy
Friday, April 24th, 2009 Posted in hifu, prostate cryotherapy | No Comments »A recent study at University of Colorado has summarized available data on the potential roles of targeted focal therapy (TFT) using cryotherapy or high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as an alternate treatment for low-risk prostate cancers. TFT uses 3D mapping biopsies ...
HIFU and cryotherapy in focal therapy for prostate cancer
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in hifu, prostate cryotherapy | No Comments »A recent study has shown that, in a series of 127 consecutive Chinese patients, treated with either high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) or targeted cryoablation of the prostate (TCAP), the tissue trauma and associated invasiveness of HIFU is significantly less than ...
Ongoing Ablatherm-HIFU U.S. Clinical Study Protocol Amended
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in hifu | No Comments »EDAP TMS SA (Nasdaq:EDAP), the global leader in therapeutic ultrasound, has received approval from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to introduce amendaments to the protocol for the ENLIGHT trial. This trial is the Company's ongoing U.S. clinical study of Ablatherm-HIFU ...
Research to compare the effectiveness of two prostate cancer treatment procedures
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in hifu, prostate cryotherapy | No Comments »Researchers are currently conducting a study to compare the effectiveness of two procedures in treating low-risk, localized prostate cancer. One of the procedures being tested is cryotherapy (freeze therapy), a commonly used minimally invasive treatment for localized prostate cancer that already ...
Focal prostate cancer therapy utilizing cryosurgery and hifu
Saturday, September 20th, 2008 Posted in hifu, prostate cancer, prostate cryotherapy | No Comments »Prostate-Sparing Targeted Therapies (Cryotherapy And HIFU) were reviewed by Dr. Ivan Colon, Assistant Professor of Urology, SUNY Downstate Medical School, and the use of HIFU for this indication was discussed by Dr. Ivan Grunberger, Associate Clinical Professor of Urology SUNY ...
Prostate care with no incision or scars
Sunday, August 31st, 2008 Posted in hifu | No Comments »Niagara doctors are using a relatively new treatment in Canada to defeat an age-old problem -the most common form of cancer found in North American men. Since June 2007, NiagaraHIFU has provided prostate cancer patients with a minimally- invasive procedure that ...
HIFU treatment available outside of United States
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in hifu | No Comments »USHIFU, LLC, the exclusive distributor of the minimally invasive Sonablate(R) 500 for prostate cancer treatment in North and South America featured a segment on high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for treating prostate cancer outside of the United States using the ...