PanAm HIFU – High Intensity Focused Ultrasound For Prostate Cancer
May 23rd, 2012
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Free Consultation | Other Web Sites Prostate MRI Prostate Cancer Prevention Foundation PEENUTS What is HIFU? Do not consider a treating physician who has only used one technology. 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 rises to 90 degrees Celsius in a matter of seconds with no pain or discomfort, under general anesthesia. Recovery is fast, with no hospital stay.
Focal treatment with Ablatherm HIFU The typical prostate cancer patient has evolved over the past 20 years inevitably leading to new therapeutic needs.
therefore the need for aggressive curative (radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy) treatments was strong despite the impact on quality of life. As of today, patients are diagnosed at earlier stages and at a younger age, often in their early 60s, with a life expectancy of 15 years.
Offering them the same treatment options as 20 years ago dramatically jeopardizes their quality of life which is now their major concern. Ablatherm HIFU is a modern, truly non-invasive, focal treatment guaranteeing to preserve patients quality of life and leaving all treatment options open including repeat HIFU in case of local recurrence of the disease. Focal treatment for localized prostate cancer is an answer to limiting the treatment to the prostatic area affected by cancer to reduce side effects such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction. Ablatherm HIFU is designed to do custom treatment depending on each patients prostate anatomy and is therefore perfectly suited for focal treatment.
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