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Prostate ablation using HIFU — the role of patient preference information

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Sitemaster |

A newly published review by staff of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FD) addresses the potential role for patient preference information (PPI) in determining patient perceptions of the “value” of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) and similar techniques in the management of prostate cancer.

Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: approval, benefit, devices, FDA, HIFU, information, medical, patient, preference, risk | Leave a Comment »

5-year follow-up after focal therapy with HIFU for localized prostate cancer

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Sitemaster |

A new paper from the Emberton-Ahmed group in the UK has reported 5-year follow-up data from a cohort of > 600 patients with clinically significant, localized prostate cancer, all treated with focal forms of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU).

Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focal, HIFU, high, high-intensity, intermediate, risk, ultrasound | 7 Comments »

Targeted HIFU in the treatment of index lesions in localized prostate cancer

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Sitemaster |

A new review article offers us some greater clarity related to the role of targeted, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) to treat carefully selected areas of the prostate to eliminate primary or index lesions while leaving the remainder of the prostate intact.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: ablation, focused, HIFU, high-intensity, partial, targeted, ultrasound | 2 Comments »

Patient choice and the effectiveness and safety of HIFU

Posted on April 30, 2018 by Sitemaster |

An interesting article has just been published in the Journal of Urology which helps to provide information (and context) about the quality of data supporting the use of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in the treatment of prostate cancer.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: choice, effectiveness, focused, HIFU, high-intensity, patient, preference, safety, ultrasound | 6 Comments »

Major US insurer to cover use of HIFU for treatment of radiorecurrent prostate cancer

Posted on March 26, 2018 by Sitemaster |

According to a media release issued on March 18 by EDAP TMS, the US healthcare insurance firm CIGNA has agreed to cover the use of high-intensity focal ultrasound (HIFU) as a second-line, salvage therapy for men with radiorecurrent prostate cancer.

Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, high-intensity, insurance, salvage, Treatment, ultrasound | Leave a Comment »

The misleading promotion of HIFU as a treatment for prostate cancer

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Sitemaster |

We were recently made aware of a video on Facebook promoting high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a treatment for prostate cancer. The video promotes the services of a particular group of physicians who specialize in this form of treatment. They are, of course, entirely entitled to do this.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, high-intensity, misleading, promotion, ultraslund | 11 Comments »

Salvage HIFU as a treatment for radiorecurrent localized prostate cancer

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Sitemaster |

Although there has been some exploratory work in this area, the available data on the outcomes of patients treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a form of salvage therapy for men with biochemical recurrence after first-line radiation therapy are extremely limited.

Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | 6 Comments »

Practical aspects of deciding whether HIFU is an appropriate treatment “for you”

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Sitemaster |

An article by Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News, posted yesterday on the STAT health news web site, asks whether high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is being “over-sold” to prostate cancer patients based on the limited outcome data currently available.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, high-intensity, ultrasound | 3 Comments »

Salvage HIFU in men with a rising PSA after first-line surgery

Posted on October 3, 2016 by Sitemaster |

We have long presumed that it would be possible to consider high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a form of salvage therapy for men with biochemically recurrent disease after either surgery or radiation therapy. Now there are some data on this concept.

Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, salvage, ultrasound | 3 Comments »

Yet another new type of HIFU is now in Phase II clinical trials

Posted on September 23, 2016 by Sitemaster |

Another breathless media release has announced enrollment of the first patient into a Phase II clinical trial of yet another new form of high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU) in men with low-risk and favorable, intermediate-risk, localized prostate cancer.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: focal, HIFU, high-intensity, trial, ultrasound | Leave a Comment »

Let’s call this “new technology” what it is; it’s a form of HIFU

Posted on August 11, 2016 by Sitemaster |

According to information in the Boston Herald earlier today, researchers at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston (one of the main teaching hospitals associated with Harvard University) are testing a new form of technology to treat localized prostate cancer.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, high-intesnisty, trial, ultrasound | Leave a Comment »

Focal HIFU in treatment of (largely) intermediate-risk prostate cancer

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Sitemaster |

In addition to the French data previously referred to on this site, data from another, much larger cohort of men treated with focal, high-intensity focused ultrasound (focal HIFU) are also to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Urological Association.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focal, hemiablation, HIFU, intermediate risk, outcome, side effect | 4 Comments »

HIFU for hemiablation of localized prostate cancer

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Sitemaster |

A major plenary presentation at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) will provide data from a rather small French trial of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in the focal management of localized prostate cancer.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment, Uncategorized | Tagged: ablation, focal, hemiablation, HIFU, high-intensity, outcome, ultrasound | Leave a Comment »

5-year outcomes from a large cohort of HIFU-treated patients in the UK

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Sitemaster |

For several years now, the Ahmed/Emberton-led research team in the United Kingdom (UK) has published the majority of the detailed outcomes data from treatment of men with localized prostate cancer using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). This group has now given us 5-year outcomes on a cohort of > 550 patients.

Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: complication, focused, HIFU, high-intensity, outcome, side effect, ultrasound | 13 Comments »

PBRT as a form of salvage radiation therapy after cryotherapy and HIFU

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Sitemaster |

A new paper in “the Red Journal” prvides some information about the potential of proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) as a salvage therapy in men who have failed either cryotherapy or first-line high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as first-line therapy for localized prostate cancer.

Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: cryotherapy, HIFU, PBRT, proton, radiation, salvage | 3 Comments »

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