{"id":10883,"date":"2016-01-13T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainstreams.ca\/toronto-hospital-becomes-worlds-first-to-treat-brain-tumour-with-non-invasive-procedure\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:16:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T16:16:57","slug":"toronto-hospital-becomes-worlds-first-to-treat-brain-tumour-with-non-invasive-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/toronto-hospital-becomes-worlds-first-to-treat-brain-tumour-with-non-invasive-procedure\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto hospital becomes world\u2019s first to treat brain tumour with non-invasive procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-type-link field-field-link-original-article\"><\/div>\n<p>TORONTO \u2013 Scientists at Toronto\u2019s Sunnybrook Hospital have taken the next bold step in chemotherapy by developing a non-invasive procedure to treat brain tumours.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital said it made history last week by using a \u201cfocused ultrasound\u201d to breach the blood-barrier in the brain to treat patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been a persistent obstacle to delivering valuable therapies to treat disease such as tumours,\u201d says Dr. Todd Mainprize, principal investigator of the study and neurosurgeon in the Hurvitz Brain Sciences Program at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are encouraged that we were able to temporarily open this barrier in a patient to deliver chemotherapy directly to the brain tumour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2327367\/toronto-hospital-becomes-worlds-first-to-treat-brain-tumour-with-non-invasive-procedure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2013 Scientists at Toronto\u2019s Sunnybrook Hospital have taken the next bold step in chemotherapy by developing a non-invasive procedure to treat brain tumours. The hospital said it made history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messageinabottle.ca\/bcbia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}