# OnCo record devices-roadmap (roadmap). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/roadmaps/devices-roadmap/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "roadmap" ;
  schema:identifier "devices-roadmap" ;
  schema:name "Devices and physical therapies roadmap: heat and light → electric fields and focused sound → drug-releasing implants"@en ;
  schema:description "Devices treat cancer with physics rather than chemistry: heat, cold, light, electric fields and sound. After decades at the margins, several now have randomised proof and approvals, and the next generation aims to prime the immune system as it destroys the tumour."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/roadmaps/devices-roadmap/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2017.18718>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO-25-00746> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-photoimmunotherapy-plus-pd1/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-acc-hpv-self-sample-same-day-ablation/>, <https://onco.cc/institutions/sunnybrook-odette/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/dna-origami-nanorobots/>, <https://onco.cc/roadmaps/frontier-2035/>, <https://onco.cc/roadmaps/surgery-roadmap/>, <https://onco.cc/roadmaps/radiation-roadmap/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/ttfields/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/hyperthermia/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/photoimmunotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/thermal-ablation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/irreversible-electroporation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/hifu-histotripsy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/litt/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/bbb-focused-ultrasound/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/histotripsy-immune-priming/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/electrochemotherapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/il12-electroporation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/bcg-and-intravesical-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/scalp-cooling/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/photobiomodulation-mucositis/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/precancer-ablation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/infusion-devices-vascular-access/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/pharmacy-automation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/magnetic-nanoparticle-hyperthermia/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/photothermal-nanoparticles/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/sonodynamic-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/radiodynamic-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/partial-nephrectomy-active-surveillance/> ;
  onco:drugs <https://onco.cc/drugs/optune/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/cetuximab-sarotalocan/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/tar-200/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/aminolevulinic-acid/>, <https://onco.cc/drugs/nadofaragene-firadenovec/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/novocure/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/histosonics/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/insightec/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/biofrontera/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/biolitec/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/luminate-medical/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/isono-health/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/ananya-health/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/alpha-tau-medical/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/sonalasense/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/zap-surgical-systems/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/boston-scientific/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/ef-14/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/panova-3/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/stellar/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/sunrise-1/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-trial-design/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-drug-pricing/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-brain-delivery/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-stupp-jama/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-panova-3-ttfields-locally-advanced-pancreatic-jco-2025/> .
