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2. Management of prostate cancer - Wikipedia

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   Treatment for prostate cancer may involve active surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy – including brachytherapy (prostate brachytherapy) and external-beam radiation therapy, proton therapy, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), cryosurgery, hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, or some combination. Treatments also extend to survivorship ...

3. New prostate cancer treatments lead way at Logansport ... - AOL

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   Sep. 27—Logansport Memorial Hospital is home to modern prostate cancer treatments that are rarely seen in the United States. The treatments, MRI Fusion Biopsy and High Intensity Focused ...

4. Focused ultrasound - Wikipedia

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   Frontal MRI four days after MRgFUS (MRI-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound): Left ventral intermediate nucleus (Vim) thalamotomy. 79-year-old man with essential tremor. One of the first applications of HIFU was the treatment of Parkinson's disease in the 1940s. Although ineffective at the time, HIFU has the capacity to lesion pathology.

5. Experimental cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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   Medical research for cancer begins much like research for any disease. In organized studies of new treatments for cancer, the pre-clinical development of drugs, devices, and techniques begins in laboratories, either with isolated cells or in small animals, most commonly rats or mice. In other cases, the proposed treatment for cancer is already ...

6. Combinatorial ablation and immunotherapy - Wikipedia

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   High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation; Laser ablation; Photodynamic ablation; Hyperthermia therapy; Ablation with alpha radiation therapy A new type of ablation therapy that utilizes alpha radiation is now undergoing clinical trials for treatment of several types of solid tumors.

7. Caroline Moore (academic) - Wikipedia

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   Moore has been among a group of researchers spread across six hospitals who have been investigating high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) as a treatment for prostate cancer. Five years after treatment with HIFU the cancer survival rate is 100%, the same as for the more traditional methods of surgery and radiotherapy, but with fewer side-effects.