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A few years ago, while visiting the University of Virginia, my friend Dr. Alan Matsumoto introduced me to some new medical technology being investigated to treat uterine fibroids (benign tumors of the uterus) with focused ultrasound therapy and thus avoid the need for hysterectomy and preservation of the patient’s fertility.
Since then, the indications and use of this potentially transformative therapy has continued to grow internationally and will hopefully enter the mainstream of medicine within the next 5-10 years. Focused ultrasound is a new, revolutionary non-invasive therapeutic technology that has the potential to transform the treatment of a variety of serious medical disorders (brain tumors, prostate cancer, essential tremor), improve outcomes, and decrease the cost of care. It could become an alternative to, or complement for, traditional surgery, radiation therapy, and drug delivery and potentially result in fewer complications, such as damage to normal tissue, infection, hemorrhage, and pain.
Focused ultrasound utilizes intersecting beams of high-frequency sound concentrated accurately and precisely on tissue deep in the body, much as sunlight passing through a magnifying glass can be focused to burn a hole in a leaf. At the point where the beams converge, the ultrasound energy induces a variety of biological effects while surrounding structures and tissues remain undamaged. Magnetic resonance (MRI) or ultrasound imaging is used to identify, guide, and control the treatment in real time.
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