Dr. Jennifer Fridley, director of Texas A&M University's Veterinary Medical Park, is collaborating on melanoma treatment research that explores light and ultrasound therapies to fight skin cancer ...

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 allows us to use short ultrasound pulses to disrupt tumors mechanically, without overheating surrounding tissue.” When tested in mice bearing human melanoma tumors, the combined ...

Writing in the journal Frontiers in Immunology, the researchers describe a process that uses ultrasound to modify the behavior of cancer-fighting T cells by increasing their cell permeability.