Ultrasound may be more precise when obliterates prostate tumours
June 9th, 2009 Posted in hifu, radiation therapySurgeons 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 half of men impotent and a fifth incontinent. As a result, men with slow growing tumours are advised to leave their cancers alone and have regular monitoring rather than treatment.
But of the first 18 men in a new trial of this new ultrasound treatment, none has suffered from incontinence. And only one has had significant impotence.