advanced histotripsy trial to date. there s tiny, nanometre sized micro bubbles that naturally exist within tissue and when we hit a focus point with the ultrasound, it excites those bubbles and those bubbles expand and collapse and they mechanically destroy tissue. patients will awake from their procedure and generally most times not know that they were ever treated. the team is going to be using standard ultrasound to identify where in peter s body the tumour is. then they will use this robotic arm to deliver a much stronger therapeutic type of ultrasound to destroy it. histosonics” technology is focused on the liver because tumours there are notoriously hard to treat and survival rates are low. the hope is histotripsy will give inoperable patients like peter better treatment options. it sounded amazing, really. at the time, my alternative was basically to go to a stronger, heavier chemo and i was hoping not
it s deep, it moves and those are potential limitations of what were doing, but we ve overcome those and we feel that everything we do gets easier. there are also early trials, separate from histosonics, investigating whether histotripsy can work on other parts of the body. peter s cancer is now stable but he still has other tumours in his body and he is waiting to see whether histotripsy stimulates an immune response before exploring other treatment options. i think no matter what the outcome on immune response is, i think it s going to be pretty dramatically life changing anyway, just the removal of that lesion. knowing that that s gone is a huge relief. we re in the midst of an energy crisis. and office buildings