Researchers have created tiny metal-based particles that push cancer cells over the edge while leaving healthy cells mostly unharmed. The particles work by increasing internal stress in cancer cells ...

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today's therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, ...

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Sharp Memorial Hospital is the first hospital system in San Diego to use a revolutionary technology to destroy cancerous tumors. The groundbreaking treatment, called histotripsy, focuses external ...

No matter where cancer cells grow in the human body, they are a threat to our health and our lives. But instead of treating them with chemotherapy or radiation - which have undesirable side effects - ...

In its latest pioneering effort to harness the power of focused ultrasound to battle disease, the University of Virginia Health System is examining the scalpel-free surgery's potential to enable the ...

In the last two centuries, complete treatments for many diseases, mostly infectious illnesses, have been discovered. The therapeutic targets for these diseases were clear and distinct from body cells.