Focused ultrasound: tumour ablation and its potential to enhance immunological therapy to cancer

G Mauri, L Nicosia, Z Xu, S Di Pietro… - The British journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Various kinds of image-guided techniques have been successfully applied in the last years
for the treatment of tumours, as alternative to surgical resection. High intensity focused …

[HTML][HTML] Pain in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: A multidisciplinary, International guideline for optimized management

AM Drewes, CM Campbell, GO Ceyhan, M Delhaye… - Pancreatology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abdominal pain is an important symptom in most patients with pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Adequate control of pain is often unsatisfactory due to limited …

[HTML][HTML] High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation for unresectable primary and metastatic liver cancer: real-world research in a Chinese tertiary center with 275 …

Y Ji, J Zhu, L Zhu, Y Zhu, H Zhao - Frontiers in oncology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This retrospective analysis was conducted to evaluate the feasibility and safety of high-
intensity focused ultrasound ablation for primary liver cancer and metastatic liver cancer …

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for uterine fibroids: a meta-analysis

Y Ji, K Hu, Y Zhang, L Gu, J Zhu, L Zhu, Y Zhu… - Archives of gynecology …, 2017 - Springer
Purpose High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a non-invasive uterine-preserving
treatment alternative to hysterectomy for women with fibroids. Methods We performed this …

HIFU for the treatment of difficult colorectal liver metastases with unsuitable indications for resection and radiofrequency ablation: a phase I clinical trial

T Yang, DM Ng, N Du, N He, X Dai, P Chen, F Wu… - Surgical …, 2021 - Springer
Background The goal of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of high intensity
focused ultrasound (HIFU) for patients with colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) but were …

[HTML][HTML] Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Current and emerging therapeutic uses of focused ultrasound

M Lafond, T Lambin, RA Drainville, A Dupré, M Pioche… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an increasingly prevalent
form of cancer with a low patient survival rate following diagnosis. Focused Ultrasound is an …

Locoregional therapy, immunotherapy and the combination in hepatocellular carcinoma: future directions

MS Dendy, JM Ludwig, SM Stein, HS Kim - Liver Cancer, 2019 - karger.com
Image-guided locoregional therapies (LRTs) have long been a vital part of treatment
regimens for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Ablation, chemoembolization, and …

Liver-directed therapies for hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

B Kis, G El-Haddad, RA Sheth, NS Parikh… - Cancer …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (IHC) are primary
liver cancers where all or most of the tumor burden is usually confined to the liver. Therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Pilot in vivo studies on transcutaneous boiling histotripsy in porcine liver and kidney

TD Khokhlova, GR Schade, YN Wang, SV Buravkov… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Boiling histotripsy (BH) is a High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) method for precise
mechanical disintegration of target tissue using millisecond-long pulses containing shocks …

[PDF][PDF] Comparison of efficiency of TACE plus HIFU and TACE alone on patients with primary liver cancer

Y Luo, Y Jiang - J Coll Physicians Surg Pak, 2019 - jcpsp.pk
Objective: To compare efficiency of trans-arterial chemo-embolization (TACE) plus high
intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU), and TACE alone on patients with primary liver cancer …