High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Used to Kill Cancer Tumor

There is a new way of killing certain cancer tumors that allows the patient to go home on the same day.  Surgeons at the Keck Medical Center of the University of Southern California became the first doctors to use this procedure on a patient with the help of high intensity focused ultrasound, or HIFU, and new robotic technology.   A month ago, doctors found a cancerous tumor in Gary Fradkin’s kidney.  It needed to be removed.  The 62-year-old windsurfer feared...

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