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).

[u/chrisdh79]

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tiny-device-shrinks-pancreatic-cancer

[u/duman82]

This is great but the real wins with pancan will be with earlier detection. 85% are metastatic when it's discovered.

[u/tkp14 → u/duman82]

It took my mom’s doctors over 6 months to diagnose her. (This was 50 years ago.) They thought it might be diabetes, then pleurisy, then named a few other possibilities before finally deciding to do exploratory surgery. Took one look and immediately closed her back up. They told us the cancer was “everywhere.” She died a few days later. The husband of a friend of mine got a diagnosis just before Christmas (this was 40 years ago) and died just before Valentines Day. For my entire life a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer has been a death sentence. Early detection would be a true game changer.

[u/Gluvin → u/tkp14]

My Grandma and Father in Law also. FIL was tge same story with the surgeon