Incisionless ultrasound surgery provision

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That this House understands patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital will be the first in the UK and Europe to benefit from incisionless ultrasound surgery using a histotripsy machine to support their cancer treatment; further understands that histotripsy uses pulsed sound waves to form bubble clouds which create mechanical forces that can destroy tissue at cellular and sub-cellular levels without the need for the ionising energy of radiation, heat damage from thermal treatments or require surgery; notes that treatment is delivered through a single short session and can be performed as a day case; believes that this could reduce cancer treatment times and significantly improve cancer survival rates; hopes this treatment will be successful enough to warrant national roll-out; and calls for the Government and health authorities to observe these impacts and review potential benefits of a wider roll-out of the treatment.