Sharp Memorial Hospital is the first hospital system in San Diego to use a revolutionary technology to destroy cancerous tumors.

The treatment is called histotripsy .

“This was cow liver that’s completely liquified, nothing left of the actual tissue,” Hamed Aryafar, M.D. said.

The groundbreaking treatment focuses external beams of ultrasound into the body to kill the cancerous tissue without ever breaking the skin.

“No incisions, no needles, it focuses beams of ultrasound into the body and it can disrupt the tissue,” Dr. Aryafar said.

Dr. Hamed Aryafar said this cutting-edge technology is designed to target tumors that are not responding to traditional chemotherapies or other forms of medicine.

“This is very exciting, for the first time, I can sit in clinic, talk to a patient, tell

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