First UK patient receives ‘game-changing’ ultrasound that destroys liver cancer

The histotripsy procedure was led by Dr Teik Choon See, consultant interventional radiologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. - (Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

A pioneering new liver cancer treatment, employing focused ultrasound waves to destroy diseased tissue, has been administered to the first NHS patient.

Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge is the first in Europe to provide this procedure, known as histotripsy, outside of clinical trials.