For anyone facing cancer, the treatment options can feel brutally familiar: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of them all. But a new approach is beginning to offer something very ...
Histotripsy is a technique that uses sound waves to rip tumors apart, without even breaking the skin. The non-invasive waves work in two ways: to break down a shield that protects the tumor cells, and ...
Notably Off Key: Questioning the Clinical Benefit of Perioperative Immunotherapy for Resectable Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma After KEYNOTE-689 The evaluation of novel health technologies is ...
Focused ultrasound creates precise mechanical cavitation that liquefies tumor tissue while sparing adjacent parenchyma, avoiding thermal sink effects and reducing risk near major vessels and bile ...
DENVER, Colo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – More than 40,000 people will be told they have liver cancer this year. Thirty thousand will die from the disease. It’s considered the leading cause of cancer deaths ...
Although histotripsy can successfully destroy tumors in the liver, longer-term data are still needed to see recurrence rates and overall survival, said Shaun P. McKenzie, MD, FACS, a surgical ...
For anyone facing cancer, the treatment options can feel brutally familiar: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of them all. But a new approach is beginning to offer something very ...