Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult ones to be treated. It is always symptomless until it advances to the late stage. The organ is located deep in the body and is surrounded with large vessels etc, which makes surgical approach even more difficult.
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound is developed for an adjunct therapy to the other modalities of treatment. It is safe and not causing much side effects. If the tumor could be shrunk together with chemo, it could be removed with surgery.
It still has weakness that it could be applicable mainly to the head/neck portion of pancreas while inaccplicable to the tail of pancreas. Of course, cases with metastases won't be treated with this modality.
It is still a hopeful treatment for the future since it could be carried out safely and repeatedly. Being improved, the device may work better for deeper lesion with much more effectiveness soon. Hopefully, it would improve the prognosis of this tough cancer.
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