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New prostate cancer therapy investigated at VUMC co-led by MPH’s Penson

Posted by on Monday, September 26, 2016 in News .

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is the world’s first site to treat a patient in the TULSA-PRO Ablation Clinical Trial (TACT), which employs an emerging therapy that uses MRI guidance and robotically driven therapeutic ultrasound to obtain precise prostate cancer tissue ablation.

Investigators, David Penson, M.D., MPH, professor and chair of Urologic Surgery, and Sandeep Arora, MBBS, assistant professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, treated the first patient Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee.