| There are multiple treatment options for prostate | | | | what we did as kids with a magnifying lens and paper |
| cancer, which means patients may choose from | | | | wood ants. |
| multiple treatment possibilities. Unfortunately all of | | | | These waves pass through your body like the |
| them takes time, especially if hormone therapy is | | | | magnified waves of sunlight doing no harm at all, until |
| prescribed. | | | | the reach the focal point, where the short burst |
| For prostate cancer sufferers high intensity focused | | | | blasts the cells at that focal point into eternity. |
| ultrasound (HIFU) might be a new hope. | | | | The heat generated at that focal point boils all the |
| HIFU cuts nothing and to all intents and purposes it's | | | | cells in that rice grain sized area within seconds, then |
| not really a vibration, not unless you count radio | | | | it lets that cool down, and moves on to the next |
| waves, radar light waves, etc as "vibrations" which | | | | focal point, no pain, no discomfort. |
| they are of course, but not in the context that you | | | | HIFU has been used for years in China, Russia, |
| are concerning yourself about. | | | | England, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Lebanon, Saudi |
| HIFU is ultrasound ( like they use for imaging | | | | Arabia, South Korea and so on. It is not used just for |
| pregnant women), but with the volume turned up | | | | prostate cancer, it's also used to treat with a high |
| and the waves focused right down to the size of a | | | | degree of success liver cancers, with ongoing trials of |
| small grain of rice. Perhaps many of you remember | | | | other soft tissue cancers. |