Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...

A new ultrasound-based treatment that destroys liver cancer tumours without surgery or radiation will be offered to NHS patients this summer in a European first. The therapy, called histotripsy, is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The histotripsy procedure was led by Dr Teik Choon See, consultant interventional radiologist at Cambridge University Hospitals ...

(RTTNews) - Exact Sciences Corp. (EXAS), Friday announced the landmark clinical results from its ALTUS study, showing that the Oncoguard Liver blood test significantly outperforms ultrasound in ...

A new ultrasound-guided nanotherapy wipes out liver tumors while training the immune system to keep them from coming back. The study, published in Nano Today, introduces a biodegradable nanoparticle ...

Virginians now have access to a new noninvasive liver cancer treatment. UVA Health in Charlottesville is the first hospital in the state to treat liver tumors with histotripsy, an incisionless ...

Liver cancer screening uses ultrasound and AFP biomarker tests, with CT or MRI for further evaluation if abnormalities are found. Staging assesses cancer's size, spread, and involvement of blood ...

Cancer of the liver, seen in a radial cross-section abdominal scan. (Photo by: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The number of new liver cancer cases will nearly double in the next 25 ...

Liver disease is a growing health problem around the world, yet many people who develop it do not know they are sick until the disease has already become serious. Conditions such as liver fibrosis and ...

The liver is an extremely sensitive organ. It filters blood, eliminates toxins and creates bile to digest food; without a functioning liver, a person will die. Its sensitive nature, however, makes it ...

A new ultrasound-guided nanotherapy wipes out liver tumors while training the immune system to keep them from coming back. Study: Sonodynamic biodegradable pseduo-conjugate polymer delivery of ...