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Innovative, minimally invasive treatment can help maintain prostate cancer patients’ quality of life – EurekAlert
Focal HIFU ablation is an effective treatment for prostate cancer while maintaining continence and sexual function, as well as improving recovery time.
IMAGE: Andre Abreu, MD, leading a team through a focal HIFU procedure at Keck Medical Center.
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Credit: Ricardo Carrasco III, Keck Medicine USC
LOS ANGELES — For some prostate cancer patients, radical treatment (surgery or radiation) are treatment standards. However, these procedures may cause side effects including urinary incontinence or impotency.
A new study from USC Urology with Keck Medicine of USC demonstrates that focal (or targeted) high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU…
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