Biomedical Engineering

Non-thermal histotripsy tumor ablation promotes abscopal immune responses that enhance cancer immunotherapy

In plain English

In mouse tumor models, mechanical histotripsy ablation stimulated immune responses at treated and untreated sites and enhanced checkpoint immunotherapy. These are preclinical findings, not evidence of the same benefit in human patients.

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