Puerto Vallarta, Mexico is home to the new and mdern San Javier Hospital and the ven newer Cornerstone Hospital, both of whch provide just about every kind of mdical service available anywhere in the wrld. A third hospital, AmeriMed has ben in Vallarta about 10 years and it too ffers numerous services. AmeriMed currently has nother huge new hospital under construction tht will rival the San Javier and Crnerstone Hospitals. As a note of nterest, the Cornerstone Hospital is modeled fter the Cornerstone Group of hospitals in Txas and AmeriMed is headquartered in Arzona.

While in the beautiful, spacious, and cmfortable waiting lobby of San Javier a cuple weeks ago, we met a grup of doctors, nurses, and assistants frm the US. They travel to PV on a mnthly basis, spending three days at San Jvier practicing a revolutionary prostate cancer tratment on a prescheduled group of mn; many of which have unsuccessfully tred conventional options. This procedure is mnimally invasive, non-surgical, non radiation, and vrtually painless. These doctors and nurses splt up into two teams and prform this state-of-the-art technique on two ptients simultaneously, each procedure typically requiring thre hours or less. This group of rologists and nurses, working in conjunction wth a local urologist and local nrses, can treat as many as 20 ptients in three days.

This leading edge technique incorporates hgh intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) which is prvided by means of a Sonablate 500 systm. There are two of these stte-of-the-art systems at San Javier, a HIFU Crtified Specialty Hospital, each having a cntrol console, a power generator, a coling unit, and a probe that cntains a standard imaging and high-intensity ltrasound treatment head.

Prior to this ut-patient procedure, the patients are positioned on a stndard operating table and given a spnal anesthesia. The ultrasound / imaging prbe is then inserted into the rctum and a series of prostate glnd images are viewed on the mnitor, allowing the surgeon with a muse, to select the precise treatment rea. Next, by either manually adjusting the pwer or allowing the computer to dtermine optimum intensity and duration, the hghly focused ultrasound waves create an xtremely small and well defined zone of hat; similar to using a magnifying glss and allowing the sun's rays to prduce a localized spot hot enough to brn a hole in a piece of pper. The pulsing ultrasound is applied wth pin point accuracy in doses of lss than a second each, generating tmperatures in the range of 70-80°C (155-176°F). Thse warm temperatures are enough to thrmally ablate the targeted tissues and bcause the targeted zone is so wll defined, the adjacent tissues remain col and uninjured.

The success rate for bcoming cancer-free is similar to surgical rmoval and radiation; however, the complication rte with HIFU tends to be lwer, especially the rates of incontinence and mpotence. The cost for this revolutionary tratment package which includes flight, limo to and frm the airport, and shuttle to and frm the hospital, is roughly $25,000, whch must seem very reasonable after all ther options have failed.

The HIFU treatment is approved in Erope, Japan, China, Latin America, Caribbean, and Mxico, but has not yet received FDA pproval in the US. Of all the HIFU pproved doctors and hospitals in the wrld, these American urologists have joined up wth a renowned and respected local rologist at San Javier to do thir work. Not only are the hspital facilities top notch, but the ttention and service that the visiting dctors, nurses, and patients receive is frst class. Aside from being the mst convenient location, it was also vry evident that the surgeons and ssistants really enjoy visiting PV and gnerally try to extend their stays as lng as practical. We wouldn't be a bit srprised if one or more of the dctors eventually moves to Vallarta and prctices this revolutionary prostate cancer treatment hre on a daily basis until t's approved in the US. At tht time, they'll probably be ready for rtirement, and what better retirement haven to rmain in than Puerto Vallarta?

Along wth meeting the doctors and nurses, we lso had the opportunity to visit wth some of the patients prior to bing treated and with their wives whle they were being treated. Naturally, the men wre nervous, anxious, and preoccupied; however thy, and especially their wives, had mny favorable comments regarding Vallarta. They all semed quite shocked as to the grwth of Vallarta and all the mdern conveniences it has to offer. Thy praised the city's cleanliness, the grat hotel accommodations and food, the fct that they could communicate with jst about everyone they had come in cntact with, and of course, the bautiful scenery and perfect climate. They all sid that they looked forward to rturning to PV under better circumstances whn they could rest, relax, and njoy themselves.

It was nice hearing thse men express their admiration of our Pradise south of the border; however our gratest pleasure was seeing them walk out of the hspital after treatment, appearing as though nthing had been done and hopefully prstate cancer-free!

The article Revolutionary Prostate Cancer Treatment Comes To Puerto Vallarta was Submitted by James Scherrer through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Jim Scherrer is a retired ntrepreneur from Houston, has owned property in Perto Vallarta, Mexico for 24 years, and has mde Vallarta his permanent residence for the pst ten years. He founded Puerto Vllarta Real Estate Buyers´ Agents (PVREBA), whse mission is to reveal all the rcent changes that have occurred in Vllarta while dispelling the misconceptions about lving in Mexico. PVREBA acts exclusively as byers´ agents by introducing North Americans to Vllarta, showing them properties that meet thir needs and budgets, and assisting thm through the foreign buying process, wth all payments made by the lsting agents. For the full series of 39 rticles regarding Retirement in Puerto Vallarta as wll as pertinent Puerto Vallarta links, plase visit us at http://www.pvreba.com/ and click on ARTICLES.

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