This technology will have limited indications, if studies show an overall benefit as compared to the costs and risks. It cannot drain an abscess nor can it remove a diseased organ. The narrator said that for cancer that has spread to the bones, this technology is a palliative treatment (means not curative).
True. But it’s a new line of thinking and will lead to other and better paths... The first telephone wasn’t impressive by our standards of today either... but it was a mind blowing ‘first’..
My take on the way they used it for metastatic bone cancer and why they mentioned it was considered palliative treatment is that mode of treatment gave them an opportunity to treat a human with an experimental treatment in real time while doing it ethically. No promises of cure, palliative treatment is generally thought of as to relieve pain or make other symptoms bearable while not treating with the goal of prolonging life.
Not sure if I understand it well, but I think this tech, combined with other things could have a huge impact.
Something like lysis of a clot in an artery would probably need to be done alongside the use of a filter, so as not to cause micro-emboli. Same thing with stones and some tumors, too, but the possibilities of tech like this seem endless to me.
Mrs. AV