Scientists Say They Partially Destroyed Tumors With Sound

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan say they were able to break down tumors in rats using a potentially game changing treatment.

In early tests, sound waves were able to destroy up to 75% of the tumors in the body.

Even if we don't target the entire tumor, we can still cause the tumor to regression and reduce the risk of future metastasis, according to a professor at UM.

It is a very basic device that is on steroids. The technique, called histotripsy, is being tested in humans at the Baptist Health South Florida hospital.

The offending tissues are caused to rapidly expand and collapse by the microbubbles created by the transducer that emits the targeted waves.

The statement explained that traditional ultrasound devices use lower amplitudes for images.

There are many advantages to the approach. The technique doesn't have the same adverse side effects as other approaches to treating tumors.

Over 30,000 new cases of lysical cancer were reported in the US in 2018, making it one of the top 10 cancers affecting Americans. According to the CDC, one out of four deaths in the US are due to cancer.

There is still a lot of work to be done before we know for sure if histotripsy is safe for human cancer patients.

We hope that our learnings from this study will motivate future investigations into histotripsy treatment for cancer patients.

Tumors partially destroyed with sound don't come back.

Putin is always with a cancer specialist.

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