The Rundown. Hope for people … Thiel, Bezos back ultrasound cancer tech

Posted on October 18, 2025 by michelleclarke2015
Thiel, Bezos back ultrasound cancer tech
Image source: HistoSonics
The Rundown: U.S. startup HistoSonics just nabbed a $250M lifeline from Peter Thiel, K5 Global, and Jeff Bezos — a massive late-stage cash infusion to fuel its push toward next-gen, scalpel-free cancer treatments.
The details:
The company’s Edison System uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumors, turning diseased tissue into microscopic debris that the body naturally clears.The tech, called histotripsy, uses rapid bursts of ultrasound to create microscopic bubble clouds inside tumors that shred cancer cells into debris. It’s already earned FDA clearance for liver tumor ablation and is running trials for prostate, pancreatic, and kidney cancers. If it works at scale, histotripsy could join robotic surgery and proton therapy as another premium, high-margin procedure hospitals race to offer.
Why it matters: HistoSonics is betting that ultrasound can replace scalpels and radiation for certain tumors, which would be a genuine breakthrough for patients. But histotripsy still has to prove it works across cancer types, matches long-term survival rates of existing treatments, and can scale beyond specialized academic centers.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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