{"id":26957,"date":"2016-06-16T11:48:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/novel-brain-cancer-treatment-taps-into-sound-waves"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:52:59","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:52:59","slug":"novel-brain-cancer-treatment-taps-into-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/novel-brain-cancer-treatment-taps-into-sound-waves","title":{"rendered":"Novel Brain Cancer Treatment Taps Into Sound Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/bismarcktribune.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/34\/5349d06c-96cd-5dca-96a3-a4ac09dfe4cf\/573bfa1c0989f.image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WEDNESDAY, June 15, 2016 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Brain cancer patients might benefit from an implantable ultrasound device that appears to enhance chemotherapy treatment, a small study says.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris and other French institutions tested the experimental device on 15 patients with recurrent glioblastoma, a particularly deadly brain cancer. When the so-called SonoCloud was activated, sound waves opened the blood-brain barrier, letting in more chemotherapy, they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe walls of the blood vessels in the brain are very difficult to cross for certain molecules,\u201d said Frederic Sottilini, CEO of Paris-based CarThera, the company developing SonoCloud.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/lifestyles\/health-med-fit\/novel-brain-cancer-treatment-taps-into-sound-waves\/article_411e1f57-d6b6-5c07-b06f-4a64774796a6.html\">http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/lifestyles\/health-med-fit\/novel-b...796a6.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY, June 15, 2016 (HealthDay News) \u2014 Brain cancer patients might benefit from an implantable ultrasound device that appears to enhance chemotherapy treatment, a small study says. Researchers from the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris and other French institutions tested the experimental device on 15 patients with recurrent glioblastoma, a particularly deadly brain cancer. When the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41165,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26957\/revisions\/41165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}