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Jan. 15, 2025 – Prostate cancer is quite common – over 60% of those diagnosed are men over the age of 65 – but it’s not a high priority for cancer researchers. One big reason ...

But after a couple of years of work, xMEMS has arrived at the next generation — ultrasound through a solid-state speaker. This tiny, 1mm-thin speaker is called Cypress, and after listening to it ...

Howard R. Soule, Ph.D., executive vice president and chief science officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, said, "These findings fill a therapeutic gap for patients with advanced prostate cancer.

In studies around the world, focused ultrasound has been used to attack cancers of the brain, breast, prostate and other organs. In Japan, HIFU is already used to treat prostate enlargement ...

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 ...

Methods: The clinical and ultrasound features of fibrous pseudotumor of the tunica vaginalis diagnosed by pathology in West China Hospital of Sichuan University from 2006 to 2023 were retrospectively ...

A relative survival rate compares people with the same type and stage of cancer to people in the overall population. For example, if the 5-year relative survival rate for a specific stage of prostate ...

The number of prostate cancers diagnosed each year declined sharply from 2007 to 2014, coinciding with fewer men being screened because of changes in screening recommendations. Since 2014, however, ...