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Q&A: Using sound to fight cancer in dogs and people

New university findings highlight potential implications for dogs, oncology, and veterinary practice.

Published Nov 10, 2026, 2:00 PM UTCStarted by Veterinary33 Editorial Desk0 replies8 hours ago

Gifts like the $15 million gift from Karen Waldron and Shawn Ricci allow us to build our clinical and research teams and bring in the expertise we need, from bioengineering to imaging, so we can help pets, and hopefully people, faster.

Joanne Tuohy leads studies of histotripsy, a noninvasive treatment that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumors.

Could research in dogs help children with bone cancer?

When a family brings their pet to the Animal Cancer Care and Research Center, Tuohy starts with a simple question: How has your pet been doing?

The answer, she says, often reveals things no medical record can.

That same attention to patients carries into her research.

Tuohy leads studies of histotripsy, a noninvasive treatment that uses focused ultrasound to destroy tumors.

Histotripsy is a form of ultrasound, like the exams people get at the doctor's office, except these wav…

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