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Imagine a cancer treatment that can destroy tumors with nothing but sound.

It's just truly amazing to see. It's just erasing the tissue in front of my eyes.

That's what it looked like.

Liver cancer is often diagnosed in later stages when surgery may not be an option.

That leaves chemotherapy and radiation treatments,

but these can cause severe side effects that may take months to recover from

or even cause long-term damage.

Histotripsy offers an option that homes in far more precisely on the tumor

with minimal recovery for the patient.

Histotripsy actually uses microsecond ultrasound pulses

to activate the nanometer gas pockets in our body

and then generate micro-bubbles

and make the micro-bubbles expand and collapse within a very short time frame.

And that creates very high mechanical strain and stress

to disrupt the disease cells, such as the tumor cells.

There really isn't much of a recovery.

After you come out of general anesthesia,

many patients ask if the procedure was even done

because they don't feel any pain.

They can just get up and walk out when they're done.