Scientists at Heriot Watt University developed a cost-effective technique for faster, more accurate prostate cancer detection using ultrasound equipment, with a 94% success rate in early trials.

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a novel prostate cancer treatment that minimizes side effect while destroying ...

Every two minutes, a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer in our country. This disease is currently the second-leading cancer-related killer of men in the United States.

A groundbreaking technique developed by scientists at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, could offer new hope for faster and more accessible prostate cancer detection. Using existing ultrasound ...

Most clinicians do not use ultrasound to detect prostate cancer or to target suspicious lesions for biopsy owing to the inaccuracies of identifying the tumor with standard ultrasound techniques.

The cost of an ultrasound scanner is a fraction of an MRI scanner (around 10%), so the new approach provides clinicians with a valuable new tool to help better guide prostate biopsies and focal ...

increases risk of adult prostate cancer, according to a new ... Jan. 3, 2025 — In April 2021, a provision in the 21st Century Cures act took effect which required that all medical test results ...

A diet high in omega-3 fatty acids and low in omega-6 fatty acids, taken with fish oil, reduced the Ki-67 index in men with prostate cancer on active surveillance. From the death of folk music star ...

A man who was diagnosed with cancer twice in just over a year has praised a new non-invasive ultrasound treatment which saved his life after enduring the "hell" of chemotherapy. Stuart Emerson, 60, ...

Prostate cancer imaging developed by university researchers has shown “extremely encouraging” results in its first clinical trials. A team at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, leading the clinical ...

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