FDA Approves Pain Treatment for Cancer Patients

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the ExAblate MRI-guided focused ultrasound therapy to treat patients with pain from bone metastases.

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The treatment, from InSightec, is designed to treat patients who are unable to undergo radiation treatment for their pain. It is a non-invasive, outpatient therapy and was approved for use in uterine fibroids patients in 2004.

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