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The Third Generation Ultrasound Therapy for Cancer, HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy System)

2019.03.22



Robot Cyber Knife and starting to operate HIFU, Inha University Hospital is emerged as the center of cancer treatment. The HIFU (High Intensity Focused Ultrasound instrument) is an epoch-making surgery-free procedure for treating cancer without surgery. Malignant tissues are burnt accurately by focusing a high-intensity ultrasound on the cancer tissues. This HIFU instrument selectively necrotizes cancerous tissues, referred to as the HIFU knife because the treated area looks as if the cancer has been cut out with a knife. The advantages of this treatment include the absence of scarring, bleeding or secondary infection, as the body is not incised and only ultrasound irradiation from the outside of the body is used. This technology has left numerous patients highly satisfied. 
HIFU acquires popularity to U.S.A, Europe, Japan and China these days, and the third generation HIFU is approved by the FDA.
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