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Effects of high intensity focused ultrasound on healthy and tumoral tissues

High intensity focused ultrasound could destroy both healthy and tumoral tissues without cousing damage of the neighbouring organs. The efficiency of this new treatment has been tested : 1/On the experimental prostatic adenocarcinoma Dunning R3327 variant AT 2 implanted in the Cophenhag/Fischer rat ;
2/ On the human prostatic adenocarcinoma implanted in the nude micer ;
3/ On canine prostate and the human PBH (the destruction of prostatic tissue could be performed transrectally).
These experiments showed that high intensity focused ultrasound :
1/ can destroy the prostatic adenocarcinoma Dunning AT 2 and are able to obtain a complete cure in 61% of cases whithout any adjuvant therapy ;
2/ can destroy the human prostatic tissu implanted in the nude mice :

FILMED_92-5204-468

1992