Opinion: The uphill battle to provide noninvasive treatment for fibroids
If an effective treatment is available for one common disease in men, and that same treatment is available for a different common disease in women, a logical expectation would be that the treatments are equally accessible to men and women. That is not the current reality.
The treatment I am talking about is focused ultrasound. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for a range of conditions, including prostate cancer, fibroids, liver tumors, essential tremor and Parkinson’s related tremor, osteoid osteoma, and pain from bone metastases. It works by using sound waves to precisely target and destroy tissue deep within the body without incisions or radiation. It’s akin to using a magnifying glass to converge the sun’s rays to a small spot on a leaf, causing enough heat to induce an actual flame. A focused ultrasound beam can be precisely focused on target tissue deep within the body to create heat to kill tissue, and the tissue in between is spared.
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