A new treatment called histotripsy is offering patients with inoperable liver tumors a better way: destroying the tumor without a single incision. By using focused sound waves, doctors can now break ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Focused ultrasound directs powerful beams of energy to specific disease targets in the body. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty ...

For anyone facing cancer, the treatment options can feel brutally familiar: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of them all. But a new approach is beginning to offer something very ...

Ultrasound isn't just for baby pictures anymore. A new wave of research is using it to fight disease by concentrating sound energy into a precise spot. Doctors can now target and destroy tissue ...

Mercy Hospital St. Louis is adding a noninvasive technology that directs sound waves to destroy liver tumors. The hospital is slated to become the first in Missouri and among the first 100 in the U.S.

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. First histotripsy system in Missouri; among first 100 in the U.S. ST. LOUIS, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Tumors ...

A Japanese-led research team has developed AUN, a groundbreaking immune-independent bacterial cancer therapy that uses two harmonized bacteria to destroy tumors even in patients with weakened immune ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., second only to heart disease. But a new cancer treatment method from CU Boulder researchers uses sound waves to soften tumors and could be a ...

First histotripsy system in Missouri; among first 100 in the U.S. ST. LOUIS, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Tumors destroyed by bubble clouds may sound like science fiction, but surgical oncologists ...