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 …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focal, HIFU, high, high-intensity, intermediate, risk, ultrasound | 7 Comments »
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 …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: ablation, focused, HIFU, high-intensity, partial, targeted, ultrasound | 2 Comments »
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 …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: choice, effectiveness, focused, HIFU, high-intensity, patient, preference, safety, ultrasound | 6 Comments »
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 …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, high-intensity, insurance, salvage, Treatment, ultrasound | Leave a comment »
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 …
Filed under: Living with Prostate Cancer, Management, Treatment | Tagged: exercise, high-intensity, interval, survival, trial | 4 Comments »
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 …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, high-intensity, misleading, promotion, ultraslund | 11 Comments »
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 …
Filed under: Diagnosis, Management, Risk, Treatment | Tagged: focused, HIFU, high-intensity, ultrasound | 3 Comments »
