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April 30, 2006
Chinese Doctors Using Ultrasound to Kill Cancer
By the end of 2005, HIFU [high intensity focused ultrasound] had been used in China to treat more than 20,000 patients, including a number of non-Chinese patients for whom HIFU treatment is unavailable at home. China Medical, one of several Chinese manufacturers, reports impressive response rates: 80 percent of patients saw partial or total remission of tumors following a course of HIFU treatment. But . . . HIFU is nowhere near approval in the U.S. for cancer therapy. Thus far, only one company, Israel’s InSightec Image Guided Treatment, has received FDA approval, and that is limited to the treatment of uterine fibroids—non-cancerous but often painful growths affecting about 20 percent of women.
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