Name
Aboyan Igor Artemovich
Scholastic degree
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Academic rank
professor
Honorary rank
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Organization, job position
Clinical and diagnostic center "Health"
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Articles count: 1
Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the most frequently
malignant neoplasms in the worldwide male
population. Back in the 90's began a promising noninvasive
method of high-intensity focused ultrasound
(HIFU) as an alternative to radical prostatectomy for
the treatment of localized prostate cancer was used.
Information about the destructive histological effect by
HIFU has been known since the 1930, however, the
clinical implementation of this technology due to the
absence at the time visualization capabilities for
monitoring during the procedure has been postponed.
In this paper, an overview of published data on the
HIFU clinical application in prostate cancer as a major,
"saving" and focal therapy. Examples of a favorable
combination of this method are also provided with
pharmacological agents. Based on the analysis of
clinical data, we can say that HIFU is a good
alternative minimally invasive therapeutic modality for
patients with prostate cancer who are not candidates
for radical prostatectomy. Applying of HIFU is
possible as a treatment option with local recurrence
after external radiotherapy, with careful selection of
patients is important, depending on prognostic factors