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**** I would like to make it clear that trolls or mentally ill people(with the exception of OP...lol) are NOT allowed in this thread. Thank You****Could ultrasound treat benign disease and cancers?
From high-intensity focused ultrasound(HIFU) to Histotripsy, these advanced revolutionary technologies/techniques could one day be the future of treatment for people with tumors, cancers or simply....just to control bleeding. Fortunately, sufficient evidence exists on the efficacy of these treatments. Histotripsy is one type of an emerging and revolutionary technique, which is a non-invasive ultrasonic approach to the treatment of benign disease and cancers. Histotripsy is an experimental
focused ultrasound technology where acoustic energy generated by an extracorporeal transducer is focused on a target volume inside the body. Conceptually histotripsy is more similar to shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) than to high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). Histotripsy was initially conceived and developed at the University of Michigan; so much of the refinement and pre-clinical translation has originated from these laboratories. More recently, other groups have begun to experiment with histotripsy both along technical and translational lines of research which serves to validate the concept of histotripsy and further enrich the potential therapeutic value of this new technology.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) is also interested in the practical applications of ultrasound. Elisa Konofagou, professor of biomedical engineering, received a $3.33 million grant from DARPA to work on developing a new way to use focused ultrasound for stimulation of peripheral nerves that will ultimately be able to control organ function.
Reputable sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3974592/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10069918https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5398988/https://stanfordhealthcare.org/medical-treatments/m/mr-guided-focused-ultrasound.htmlhttps://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-mri-guided-focused-ultrasound-device-treat-essential-tremorhttps://bme.columbia.edu/elisa-konofagou%E2%80%99s-new-darpa-grant-advances-work-focused-ultrasoundOther:
https://fusfoundation.org/the-technology/overviewhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301562919300821https://medium.com/@FUSFoundation/focused-ultrasound-bubble-not-about-to-burst-anytime-soon-8e7ccb97c8ff https://www.webmd.com/prostate-cancer/prostate-cancer-hifu-surgery#1 No.1297
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>>1296>probably more appropriate for / townhall/eh?
No.1298
>>1297I don't mean there is anything wrong with it. Just seems like a thread more appropriate for townhall.
I dunno, just my impression.
No.1300
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Zone, my dear friend, i think you've already made this thread a few times, the last time of which was just recently, about this very niche, scientific subject
let's try this one in townhall this time, okay? thank you c:
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This is moved to Townhall but people are still posting in it here?
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>>1303That's basically a euphemism for the fact that the US military is the largest healthcare provider in the country. Government funded healthcare is a touchy political topic here, as is the quality of VA care, so saying it too directly risks pissing off the people who control the purse strings. Politically it is much safer to point out that wars have been won and lost due to quality of health care.
