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Boston Hospital Tests Ultrasound Technology That Fights Tumors with Beams.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Carey Goldberg, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 1--The operation is something like destroying the seeds in an apple without ever cutting into the apple itself.
Doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital this week annihilated a benign tumor bigger than a softball in a woman's uterus -- but there was no cutting, no suturing, not even any bleeding involved.
They simply pointed a sharply focused beam of high-intensity ultrasound energy at the fibroid tumor and zapped it dead.
The procedure, which could gain approval for commercial use as early as next spring, is one of a whole new array of alternatives to hysterectomy for the millions of women who suffer from fibroids, benign growths in the uterus that...
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