After the therapy, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound was introduced into the environment of medicine, opened a new and effective option for fight against prostate cancer treatment of localized cancers, also for those patients who have failed other treatments located such as brachytherapy or cryotherapy and RT.

By Gilberto Chechile, A urologist who specializes has already tested this revolutionary treatment, The patients are treated with external beam radiation they are limited to undergo further treatment in the future. The external radiotherapy is one of the treatments used in the treatment of localized prostate cancer, And failure rate for this treatment is approximately thirty percent. Then these patients are left with a very limited possibilities for the treatment of their disease as not recommended (In general) radical surgery because tends to bring complications for patients after performing. This is the motive driving the implementation of this new method (HIFU) to treat the problem of prostate cancer.

This new treatment prevents tumor growth by fifty percent of patients and in an eighty percent, if low-risk initial tumor. This is a useful method for patients who have failed radiation therapy, Being a bit aggressive treatment with a fifty percent control over the tumor.

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