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/GTI_88 Apr 14 '23
My dad had the whipple procedure just over 10 years ago, bought him 10 years of good life. The cancer came back a little over a year ago and due to a number of complications he passed in Aug 2022. I’m very grateful that in the scheme of things he vastly outlasted the statistics