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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

High Intensity Focused Ultrasound or HIFU is the newest treatment for prostate cancer.



The newest ablative therapy is High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU). HIFU is a sophisticated, technical system that precisely directs energy only to the prostate cells. This technology can be compared to a magnifying glass that focuses the sun’s rays to ignite a piece of paper.  A hand placed between the magnifying glass and the paper does not get hot.
So too with HIFU, the normal tissues are cool, while the “significant” cancer is treated with the heat of focused ultrasound. By combining the image from a 3T MRI and HIFU system, we are able to spare the nerves and vessels that maintain erection, continence, ejaculatory function and a large portion of the prostate gland.  This produces a very rapid recovery in days, rather than weeks or months.
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