The University of Michigan has received FDA approval for a new type of liver cancer treatment.
Sound waves could now be used to break down liver cancer tumors. The treatment is called histotripsy and has potential to become a non-invasive alternative to chemotherapy.
Last week, the technique received FDA approval.
Mishal Mendiratta-Lala is a professor of radiology with Michigan Medicine and worked on the clinical trials. She says her trials have shown encouraging results.
<i>“It’s very exciting that even in my clinical trials that I had, we have patients that are two years after treatment without recurrence of the tumor that we treated. So, it’s a very exciting time for cancer therapy.”</i>
Currently, the treatment is only approved to treat liver tumors.
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