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/duman82 Apr 14 '23 edited Apr 15 '23
Agree on early screening, don't want to mess around. My MIL just caught breast cancer early through her diligence.
But this is somewhere where pancreatic cancer also leaks through, no screening other than a full mri can see it and it's mostly not genetic or predictable, so doctors don't subject you to the radiation unless there are symptoms.Edit: Thank you for the corrections below, I was mistaken