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). … READ MORE …
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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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According to a news release just issued by Queen’s University, Belfast, a group of 150 researchers around the world is coming together to expand enrollment and access to the Australian INTERVAL trial into a global trial to test whether serious exercise should be prescribed as part of the treatment for men with advanced 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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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. … READ MORE …
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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. … 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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For those able to access the February 2016 issue of the AUA News, it carries an interesting article outlining the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s perspective on exactly why the agency decided to approve two forms of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) technology for the transrectal ablation of prostate tissue. … READ MORE …
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A newly published paper in European Urology has provided us with data from one of the earliest, well-documented series of patients undergoing focal therapy of the index lesion from what is known to have been multifocal prostate cancer. … 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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