Noninvasive treatment of breast cancer using high-intensity focused ultrasound

• Main Author: Zhou, Yufeng
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Medicine::Biomedical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99242; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24067
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Breast conserving surgery is a standard procedure for breast cancer since 1970. Now noninvasive therapy with few complications is preferred. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been developed to ablate solid tumor or cancer noninvasively. Its clinical outcome on breast cancer in China and E...