{"id":208326,"date":"2025-03-11T06:25:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-can-cer-treatment-destroys-tumors-using-soundwaves-and-water"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:25:27","slug":"new-can-cer-treatment-destroys-tumors-using-soundwaves-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-can-cer-treatment-destroys-tumors-using-soundwaves-and-water","title":{"rendered":"New can: cer treatment destroys tumors using soundwaves and water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-can-cer-treatment-destroys-tumors-using-soundwaves-and-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is an overview of a developing cancer treatment that relies on highly focused sound waves in a liquid medium (often the body\u2019s own fluids) to non-invasively destroy tumors. Though the technology is still in various stages of research and clinical trials, it shows promise as a potential alternative or complement to surgery, radiation, or traditional chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p><b> 1. What Is This Technology?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A primary example of a soundwave-based treatment that uses water or fluid in the body is called <strong>histotripsy<\/strong> (or, more broadly, high-intensity focused ultrasound\u2014HIFU). Histotripsy is an emerging therapy that directs <strong>ultra-short, high-intensity ultrasound pulses<\/strong> at a targeted area, causing microscopic, rapid changes in tissue pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below is an overview of a developing cancer treatment that relies on highly focused sound waves in a liquid medium (often the body\u2019s own fluids) to non-invasively destroy tumors. Though the technology is still in various stages of research and clinical trials, it shows promise as a potential alternative or complement to surgery, radiation, or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208326","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}