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. … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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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. READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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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. … READ MORE …
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A new report provides data from a prospective, single-center, Phase II trial of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in prostate cancer hemiablation as a form of focal therapy. The study was carried out in Belgium. … READ MORE …
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As predicted, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration apparently approved the Ablatherm brand of equipment for high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) on November 9 for “the ablation of prostate tissue.” … READ MORE …
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A new paper in European Urology has suggested that men with localized prostate cancer who are treated by focal forms of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) have “a return to baseline International Index of Erectile Function — erectile and total International Index of Erectile Function scores” by 6 months after treatment which was maintained at 1 year. … READ MORE …
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Your sitemaster is pleased to be able to report a forthright and interesting discussion yesterday with Dr. Stephen Scionti about the current and future potential of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in the treatment of prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Dr. Stephen Scionti is almost certainly the most experienced practitioner of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a first-line treatment for prostate cancer practicing in the USA today — although he has had to actually treat the vast majority of his patients outside of the USA. … READ MORE …
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As predicted in yesterday’s post about the nature of the approval of SonaCare Medical’s Sonablate technology as a “generic” form of treatment for prostate tissue ablation, we are likely to see rapid approval of the Ablatherm brand of HIFU technology here in America very soon as well. … READ MORE …
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According to a media release issued by SonaCare Medical early this morning, the company has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Sonablate® 450 technology in the U.S.A. for prostate tissue ablation. … READ MORE …
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