{"id":138342,"date":"2022-04-19T20:04:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-have-eradicated-liver-cancer-in-rats-using-non-invasive-sound-waves"},"modified":"2022-04-19T20:04:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T01:04:19","slug":"scientists-have-eradicated-liver-cancer-in-rats-using-non-invasive-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/scientists-have-eradicated-liver-cancer-in-rats-using-non-invasive-sound-waves","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Eradicated Liver Cancer in Rats Using Non-Invasive Sound Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-eradicated-liver-cancer-in-rats-using-non-invasive-sound-waves2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rats afflicted with liver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cancer\">cancer<\/a> have demonstrated the efficacy of a fascinating, non-invasive treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Using focused ultrasound, scientists have managed to destroy up to 75 percent of the volume of a liver tumor. The treatment also seems to trigger the rats\u2019 immune systems into taking over and clearing the rest.<\/p>\n<p>In 80 percent of the animals, the cancer seemed to be destroyed, with no sign of metastases or recurrence in the three months they were monitored for, the researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rats afflicted with liver cancer have demonstrated the efficacy of a fascinating, non-invasive treatment. Using focused ultrasound, scientists have managed to destroy up to 75 percent of the volume of a liver tumor. The treatment also seems to trigger the rats\u2019 immune systems into taking over and clearing the rest. In 80 percent of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}