Ultrasonic treatment of breast cancer

A hospital in Miyazaki City in Japan has started the treatment of clinical trials using ultrasound to verify the effectiveness of this new therapy and whether the side effects.

Ultrasonic treatment method developed by the experts at Harvard University, the main tumor with magnetic resonance imaging devices to determine location, and then irradiated cancer cells with ultrasound focus, relying on 60 degrees Celsius to 80 degrees Celsius temperature to kill them.

Japan, the hospital introduced the new therapy, is now large-scale clinical trials. New therapies aimed at less than 2 cm in diameter breast tumors. The tumor with ultrasound irradiation about 20 seconds, then stop about 90 seconds irradiation, so that repeated 30 times to 40 times, until the kill cancer cells. The entire procedure takes about two and a half hours, the advantage is not general anesthesia, and will not damage the breast.

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