Hoag acquired the newly-approved Edison Histotripsy System made by HistoSonics Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, one of Orange County’s largest hospitals, has implemented the latest in liver cancer treatment technology.
The HistoSonics Edison Histotripsy System uses ultrasound energy to selectively destroy cancer cells, similar to the way a wine glass shatters at the right frequency, Chief of Interventional Radiology and Interventional Oncology Dr. Trushar Patel said.
“This is actually mechanically bursting open cells, whether they be tumor or tissue,” Patel told the Business Journal.
The new, noninvasive technology received Food and Drug Administration approval in 2023 and is currently being investigated to treat other cancer applications.
Earlier this year, HistoSonics Inc. announced the first patient with a kidney tumor was treated with the system.
Hoag has also recruited Dr. Kenneth Chang to be the new executive medical director of Hoag’s Digestive Health Institute (DHI).
Chang, one of the world’s preeminent experts on stomachs, joins Hoag from the University of California, Irvine, where he built and launched UCI’s Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center and the Digestive Health Institute.
He won the Business Journal’s Innovator of the Year Award in 2021.
A Non-Lethal Treatment to Healthy Cells Interested in bringing the technology to Hoag, Patel reached out to Minnesota-based medical device startup HistoSonics in 2019.“It’s been a long process in the sense that we’ve been evaluating this technology for a while, but as soon as we decided that it would be appropriate, we were able to move extremely quickly,” Patel said.Hoag is just one of three centers in California to offer this technology, according to Patel. Besides Hoag, Providence Mission Hospital and UCI provide this system.In terms of liver cancer, Patel said that Hoag has been shifting away from surgery to more focal therapies such as MRI-guided radiation therapy and percutaneous ablation.“The downside of that is you get radiation to other parts of the body that are sort of in front of the cancer,” Patel said.Histotripsy, on the other hand, is said to be non-lethal to healthy cells and doesn’t require a single incision.Before the procedure, the system uses ultrasound imaging to visualize the lesion and target it. Patients then […]
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