Histotripsy treats hard-to-reach liver tumors using sound. The FDA cleared a new histotripsy device called Edison in October 2023.
Doctors have begun treating liver tumors with a new knife-free procedure called histotripsy after the FDA cleared commercialization of a new device last year. The technique can work alongside or potentially replace harsh chemo, surgery or radiation treatments.
"During COVID, that was especially important. I knew that it affected the lungs and it affected your smell. So I figured if I can't run and my lungs don't work, then things are bad. On top of that, there is a flower bush on the route. So every day I'd run as long as I could breathe and felt good, and as long as I could smell the flower bush, I knew I didn't have COVID,” he shared."I'm strong in my faith, too.
"When I was first diagnosed a lot of people, when they'd talk to me, they kind of look at me,” Perino said."I could sense that they were looking at me as if I was dying. And I was like, no, that's not the angle we're taking here."Study says prostate cancer rates expected to double worldwide by 2040 Lindsey Theis 4:35 PM, Apr 04, 2024 A patient can live without their colon, but not their liver. So, doctors first focused on Perino’s liver tumors.
"There's no incisions or needles, patients don't interrupt any sort of systemic therapy,” Dr. Kevin Burns, Perino’s Interventional Radiologist said."It uses bubbles inside of the cell to rapidly expand and contract to destroy all the cells. But it keeps all the proteins intact and turns it into a liquid. And that liquid gets absorbed by the lymphatic system in the liver. And that can potentially expose your body to all these new antigens that have been hiding from the body.
Burns told us that microbubbles form and then collapse to break apart the lesion, and the destroyed cancer cells are cleaned up by the immune system.
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