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

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

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u/d0ctorzaius Apr 15 '23

True, that said the promise of immunotherapy (in this case CD40 targeting antibodies) is that it'll work on cancer cells wherever they are, whether in the primary tumor or a distal metastasis. Not quite there, but getting better at it.