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How ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment

How ultrasound is ushering a new era of surgery-free cancer treatment

As focused ultrasound heats and damages tumours, it seems to make these tissues more visible to the immune system “Radiation therapy does cure cancer, but it does also cause a lot of long-term side effects,” Sharma says. If its effects can be enhanced thanks to ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles, she says, doctors could theoretically use lower doses to achieve the same treatment …

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