Treatment of inoperable pancreatic cancer

Dear friends! On World Pancreatic Cancer Day we would like to tell you about the high-tech method of HIFU therapy, which is used in National Medical research Radiological Center of the Ministry of Health of The Russian federation for the treatment of inoperable pancreatic cancer.HIFU stands for High Intensity Focused UltrasoundHow is the procedure performed?What kind of patients is it indicated for?And how to get the treatment?

Madina V. Bogatyreva, an oncologist at the Department of General Oncology with Chemotherapy of P. Hertsen Moscow Oncology Research Institute – branch of the National Medical Research Radiological Centre of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, tells us about the procedure