Researchers have created a new kind of nanoparticle that could make ultrasound-based cancer treatments more effective and safer, while also helping prevent tumors from coming back.
The study, published in the journal Nano Letters, explores a way to make high-intensity focused ultrasound less harmful to healthy tissues.
Oregon Health & Science University was the first hospital in Oregon to offer prostate cancer treatment using a robotic-assisted high-intensity focused ultrasound device. Researchers in the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center, or CEDAR, wanted to improve a category of focused ultrasound known as mechanical tumor ablation.
This technique uses energy to destroy solid tumors without surgery. However, using focused ultrasound to treat solid…