Using targeted ultrasound to attack prostate cancer can eliminate the disease entirely in 65 per cent of cases with minimal side-effects, a study has found.
Researchers said that MRI scans can be used to focus pulses of ultrasound to treat prostate cancer with no need for surgery, finding that it eliminated most signs of cancer in 80 per cent of cases and all signs in 65 per cent.
The technique is known as MRI-guided transurethral ultrasound ablation (Tulsa), sending “precise doses of sound waves to diseased prostate tissue. The Times.
