TABLE OF CONTENTS

Review Articles
1. Feng Wu, Gail ter Haar and Wei R Chen. High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation of
breast cancer. Expert Rev. Anticancer Ther. 7(6), (2007). 823-831
2. Feng Wu. Extracorporeal high intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of patients
with solid malignancy. Minimally Invasive Therapy. 2006; 15:1; 26–35.
3. Wenzhi Chen and Kun Zhou. High-intensity focused ultrasound ablation: a new
strategy to manage primary bone tumors. Current Opinion in Orthopaedics 2005,
16:494—500
4. Kennedy JE. High intensity focused ultrasound in the treatment of solid tumours.
Nature Reviews Cancer 2005; 5(4): 321-327.
5. Kennedy JE, ter Haar G, Cranston D. High intensity focused ultrasound: Surgery of
the future? Br J Radiology 2003; 76:590-599.

Original Articles
1. QIANG ZHOU, XUE-QIANG ZHU, JUN ZHANG, et al. CHANGES IN CIRCULATING
IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE CYTOKINE LEVELS OF CANCER PATIENTS AFTER
HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND TREATMENT. Ultrasound in Med. &
Biol., Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 81–87, 2008
2. FENG WU, ZHI-BIAO WANG, YOU-DE CAO, et al. "Wide Local Ablation" of Localized
Breast Cancer using High Intensity Focused Ultrasound. Journal of Surgical Oncology
2007;96:130–136
3. F. WU, L. ZHOU and W. R. CHEN. Host antitumour immune responses to HIFU
ablation. Int. J. Hyperthermia, March 2007; 23(2): 165–171
4. Chengzhi Li, Xiaogang Liao, Kejian Wang, et al. Study of ultrastructural changes of
the non-neoplastic epithelial disorders of vulva after focused ultrasound treatment.
Therapy (2007), 181-186.
5. Feng Wu, Zhi-Biao Wang, You-De Cao, et al. Expression of Tumor Antigens and
Heat-Shock Protein 70 in Breast Cancer Cells After High-Intensity Focused
Ultrasound Ablation. Annals of Surgical Oncology 14(3):1237–1242
6. Hiroyuki Fukuda, Taketo Yamaguchi, Seigo Yukisawa, et al. US-guided high intensity
focused ultrasound for the treatment for liver tumours. ISTU 2007
7. Bao-Jin Zhai, Ze-Yong Shao, Chun-Liang Zhao, et al. Development and
characterization of multidrug resistant human hepatocarcinoma cell line in nude mice.
World J Gastroenterol November 7, 2006 Volume 12 Number 41. 6614-6619.
8. Feng Wu, Zhi-Biao Wang, You-De Cao, et al. Heat fixation of cancer cells ablated with
high-intensity–focused ultrasound in patients with breast cancer. The American
Journal of Surgery 192 (2006) 179–184
9. RO Illing, JE Kennedy, F Wu, et al. The safety and feasibility of extracorporeal
high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) for the treatment of liver and kidney tumours
in a Western population. British Journal of Cancer (2005) 93, 890 – 895.
10. Wu F, Wang ZB, Zhu H, et al. Feasibility of US-guided High-Intensity Focused
Ultrasound Treatment in Patients with advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Initial Experience.

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 Radiology 2005; 236:1034–1040.
11. Wu F, Wang ZB, Zhu H, et al. Extracorporeal high intensity focused ultrasound
treatment for patients with breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
2005;92(1):51-60.
12. Wu F, Wang ZB, Chen WZ, et al. Advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: treatment with
high intensity focused ultrasound ablation combined with transcatheter arterial
embolization. Radiology 2005; 235(2): 659-67.
13. Wu F, Wang ZB, Chen WZ, et al. Extracorporeal high intensity focused ultrasound
ablation in the treatment of patients with large hepatocellular carcinoma. Ann Surg
Oncology 2004; 11 (12): 1061-1069.
14. Yang X, Bai J, Yu T, et al. Effects of high intensity focused ultrasound on vascular
endothelial growth factor in melanoma bearing mice. Technol Cancer Res Treat.
2004;3(5):499-503.
15. Li C, Bian D, Chen W, et al. Focused ultrasound therapy of vulvar dystrophies: A
feasibility study. Obstet Gynecol.2004; 104: 915-921.
16. Wu F, Wang ZB, Lu P, et al. Activated anti-tumour immunity in cancer patients after
high intensity focused ultrasound ablation. Ultrasound Med Biol 2004; 30: 1217-1222.
17. Kennedy JE, ter Haar GR, Wu F, et al. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound assessment of
tissue response to high-intensity focused ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol 2004;
30:851-854.
18. Wu F, Wang ZB, Jin CB et al. Circulating tumor cells in patients with solid malignancy
treated by high-intensity focused ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol 2004; 30:511-517.
19. Li CX, Xu GL, Jiang ZY, et al. Analysis of clinical effect of high-intensity focused
ultrasound on liver cancer. World J Gastroenterol 2004;10:2201-2204.
20. Wu F, Wang ZB, Chen WZ, et al. Extracorporeal high intensity focused ultrasound
ablation in the treatment of 1038 patients with solid carcinomas in China: an overview.
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 2004;11:149–154.
21. Kennedy JE, Wu F, ter Haar GR, et al. High-intensity focused ultrasound for the
treatment of liver tumours. Ultrasonics 2004;42:931-935.
22. Wu F, Wang ZB, Chen WZ, et al. Extracorporeal focused ultrasound surgery for
treatment of human solid carcinomas: Early Chinese clinical experience. Ultrasound
Med Biol 2004;30:245-260.
23. Yu T, Wang G, Hu K, et al. A microbubble agent improves the therapeutic efficiency of
high intensity focused ultrasound: a rabbit kidney study. Urol Res 2004; 32:14-19.
24. Wu F, Wang ZB, Cao YD, et al. A randomised clinical trial of high-intensity focused
ultrasound ablation for the treatment of patients with localised breast cancer. British J
Cancer 2003; 89:2227-2233.
25. Wu F, Wang ZB, Chen WZ, et al. Preliminary experience using high intensity focused
ultrasound for the treatment of patients with advanced stage renal malignancy. J Urol
2003;170: 2237-2240.
26. Wu F, Wang ZB, Cao YD, et al. Changes in biologic characteristics of breast cancer
treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol 2003;
29:1487-1492.
27. Wang Z, Bai J, Li F, et al. Study of a "biological focal region" of high-intensity focused

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 ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol 2003; 29:749-754.
28. Zhang Q, Li F, Feng R, et al. Numerical simulation of the transient temperature field
from an annular focused ultrasonic transducer. Ultrasound Med Biol 2003;
29:585-589.
29. Wu F, Chen WZ, Bai J, et al. Tumor vessel destruction resulting from high-intensity
focused ultrasound in patients with solid malignancies. Ultrasound Med Biol 2002;
28:535-542.
30. Wu F, Chen WZ, Bai J, et al. Pathological changes in human malignant carcinoma
treated with high-intensity focused ultrasound. Ultrasound Med Biol 2001;27:
1099-1106.
31. Wang ZB, Wu F, Wang ZL, et al. Targeted damage effects of high intensity focused
ultrasound (HIFU) on liver tissues of Guizhou province miniswine. Ultrasonics
Sonochemistry 1997; 4:181-182.

Editorial Articles & Others

1. Halpern E. High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) – Will image guided therapy
replace conventional surgery? Radiology 2005; 235 (2): 345-346.
2. Abdalla EK, Vauthey JN. Focus on treatment of large hepatocellular carcinoma. Ann
Surg Oncology 2004; 11(12): 1035-1036.
3. Cathel Kerr. Ultrasound treatment for renal cancer. Lancet Oncology 2004; 5:74.
4. Mason TJ. Report on first international workshop on the application of high-intensity
focused ultrasound in medicine. Chongqing, P. R. China (10-13 May 2001).
Ultrasonics Sonochemistry 2002; 9:121-122.