And they didn't come back.
On a very basic level, it's an ultrasound imaging device on steroids. The technique, called histotripsy, can focus tight beams of ultrasound waves at target issues, and isThe transducer that emits the targeted ultrasound waves creates microbubbles inside the offending tissues, causing them to rapidly expand and collapse, and then eventually to break up.
"Traditional ultrasound devices use lower amplitude pulses for imaging," Xu explained in the statement. There's plenty of advantages to the approach. Scientists have found the technique doesn't have the same adverse side effects as other approaches to treating cancerous tumors, like radiation and chemotherapy.affecting Americans today, with over 30,000 new cases being reported in 2018 alone. One out of every four deaths in the US is due to cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
But there's still plenty of work left to do until we know for sure histotripsy is both effective and safe for human liver cancer patients. "We hope that our learnings from this study will motivate future preclinical and clinical histotripsy investigations toward the ultimate goal of clinical adoption of histotripsy treatment for liver cancer patients," said lead author Tejaswi Worlikar, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering at UM, in the statement.
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