# OnCo record idea-fund-ablation-versus-surgery-trials (idea). 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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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-ablation-versus-surgery-trials/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-fund-ablation-versus-surgery-trials" ;
  schema:name "Device-agnostic public trials of ablation technologies against surgery"@en ;
  schema:description "Focused ultrasound, histotripsy, heat and electric-field ablation can destroy tumours without an incision, but each maker runs its own small study. Publicly-funded trials would compare them fairly against surgery."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-ablation-versus-surgery-trials/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(15)00223-5> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-surgical-trials-network/>, <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-device-technique-registry/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/rcc/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/hifu-histotripsy/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/thermal-ablation/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/irreversible-electroporation/> ;
  onco:companies <https://onco.cc/companies/histosonics/>, <https://onco.cc/companies/insightec/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-sullivan-lancet-oncol/> .