高强度聚焦超声治疗特殊前列腺癌的现状及进展

Current status and progress of high intensity focused ultrasound for special prostate cancer

前列腺癌现已成为危害男性健康的常见泌尿系统肿瘤之一,我国前列腺癌的发病率不断上升。前列腺癌的治疗已成为目前的热门话题。高强度聚焦超声(high intensity focused ultrasound,HIFU)是一种将超声聚焦形成高能量的焦域从而杀灭靶组织新技术。HIFU在一些报道中已单独用来治疗早期局限性前列腺癌,疗效确切。同时,HIFU对于几种特殊的前列腺癌,如激素非依赖性前列腺癌、放疗后复发前列腺癌以及HIFU治疗后复发的前列腺癌也起到了一定的作用。

Prostate cancer is currently one of the most common urinary system tumors, the incidence of prostate cancer in China keeps rising. Treatment of prostate cancer is drawing attention increasingly. High intensity focused ultrasound(HIFU) is a novel technique, which can destroy target tissue when ultrasound beam focus on it. Reportedly, HIFU has been applied to effectively treat localized prostate cancer alone. Meanwhile, HIFU also showed certain therapy effect for some special prostate cancers, such as hormone independent prostate cancer, recurrence after radiotherapy or HIFU.