Chemotherapy drug reaches brain tumors using novel ultrasound technology

Sometimes I wonder if we are erring too much on the side of slowing things down.

While we're all desperate (some more than others) for a break-through in cancer treatment, it seems perfectly reasonable to demonstrate that something is both safe and better than the current standard-of-care before physicians start rolling this out to everyone affected by the brain tumours this therapy would help.

I sympathize with the sentiment that delaying rolling out a therapy like this seems inhumane, it would be no less (and arguably more) inhumane to roll out a therapy where we didn't establish safe doses and effectiveness to the best of our ability. Both potentially result in deaths.

I would assume the original name would be captured on a university convocation program PDF within the last decade or two.

This is why we deal with it piecemeal, because it's the only way we can actually detect it. This isn't a current technical limitation, this is a "we can't solve something before we know the problem" issue due to how cells work. Even in the very long term future where we have bio implants, the best solution we would have are implants being able to seek cancer cells instantly and remove them.