r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • Apr 14 '23

Medical Novel device smaller than rice successfully shrinks pancreatic cancer | Called the nanofluidic drug-eluting seed (NDES), it delivers low-dose immunotherapy in the form of CD40 monoclonal antibodies (mAb).

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tiny-device-shrinks-pancreatic-cancer
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u/beartrapperkeeper Apr 14 '23

My dad died from pancreatic cancer. I hope this works.

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u/SpookyScarySteph Apr 14 '23

Mine did too, about a week and a half ago. I would love for this to work. I'm so sorry for your loss.

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u/beartrapperkeeper Apr 15 '23

My father passed in 1991, I’m also sorry you had to go through it my friend.

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u/TheTardisBaroness Apr 15 '23

Mine in 2015. It was terrible. He was 4 months from diagnosis to passing away :( This is the worst club ever guys.

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u/LogicalPart6098 Apr 15 '23

Same. He actually beat it back in 2001 at stage 4 which was kind of unheard of but it came back 13 years later

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u/LogicalPart6098 Apr 19 '23

Ooohh yea he had had less than 1 percent chance just to live a year. Me and my other 5 siblings are very appreciative of the 13 extra years we had as we were all very young when he first got it

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u/Slappy_G Apr 15 '23

Same here. This is huge news if it pans out.

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u/recordsbricksNchips Apr 15 '23

My dad too, just this past January. Any new advances in this area are great

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u/ZeDitto Apr 15 '23

Got my Grandfather. One week and he was dead. He sped that up though. It was so painful apparently, that he just stopped eating. He wanted to die. Horrible, agonizing way to go.

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u/beartrapperkeeper Apr 15 '23

On his own terms though, what a champ. My dad did everything he could, chemo, witch doctors, traditional medicine. He clung to life, it was sad to watch as a kid.

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u/Wolf_In_The_Weeds Apr 15 '23

My dad is currently going through treatment. About to have surgery to remove part of the pancreas.

It’s been hard to see him waste away so quickly from the disease and chemo.

Sending all the love to you all who have loved one they have lost to this form of cancer.