High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)

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Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in men and the third leading cause of male cancer deaths. Typically, prostate cancer is very slow growing, but sometimes the disease can grow and spread quickly. Even with the latest research, it is extremely difficult for doctors to know which men have a slow growing cancer and which have a cancer that will spread rapidly.

A Minimally Invasive Way to Treat Prostate Cancer

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, or HIFU, is a therapy that destroys tissue with rapid heat elevation-which essentially “cooks” the tissue. Ultrasound energy, or sound waves, is focused at a specific location and at that “focal point,” the temperature raises to almost 90 degrees Celsius in a matter of seconds. Any tissue at the “focal point” is destroyed; however, any tissue outside of the focal point remains unharmed. HIFU has produced oncological results, in studies performed outside the United States, that are broadly comparable to standard therapies and HIFU is a minimally invasive prostate cancer therapy that does not use ionizing radiation1, which can be potentially harmful.

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