High-intensity focused ultrasound therapy for unresectable pancreatic cancer

Analgesic effect of high intensity focused ultrasound therapy for unresectable pancreatic cancer.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the pain-alleviating action, feasibility and efficacy of high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for palliation of inoperable pancreatic cancer in humans. METHODS Forty patients with advanced pancreatic cancer were treated with HIFU. There were 13 patients with stage III, and 27 patients with stage IV disease. The locations of the tumours were as follows: head of pancre...

High-intensity focused ultrasound therapy in combination with gemcitabine for unresectable pancreatic carcinoma.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the therapeutic effect and safety of high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy combined with gemcitabine in treating unresectable pancreatic carcinoma. METHODS The 45 patients suffering from pancreatic carcinoma were randomized into two groups. The patients in the experimental group (n=23) received HIFU in combination with gemcitabine and those in the control g...

Concurrent Chemotherapy and Pulsed High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy for the Treatment of Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer: Initial Experiences

OBJECTIVE This study was performed to evaluate the potential clinical value of concurrent chemotherapy and pulsed high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy (CCHT), as well as the safety of pulsed HIFU, for the treatment of unresectable pancreatic cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twelve patients were treated with HIFU from October 2008 to May 2010, and three of them underwent CCHT as the m...

High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer is under high mortality but has few effective treatment modalities. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is becoming an emerging approach of noninvasively ablating solid tumor in clinics. A variety of solid tumors have been tried on thousands of patients in the last fifteen years with great success. The principle, mechanism, and clinical outcome of HIFU were introduced fir...

Non-thermal high-intensity focused ultrasound for breast cancer therapy