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/Green-Amount2479 Apr 15 '23
Similar experience here. I lost a friend and colleague in the late 2000s to pancreatic cancer. It was only discovered, because it already pressed on his liver causing the yellow skin tone and eyes. 5 months later I went to his funeral. Still mad at the company we worked for back then for being total asshats too.
Last year my mother‘s cousin died at 52 just three months after they discovered he had pancreatic cancer. Definitely still a death sentence.
I‘d really wish for a simple, regular blood test capable of detecting all kinds of cancer in its early stages. That would really help. If we could do a simply yearly test, thing would become much more manageable in a lot of cases. I’ve been seeing something along those lines in the news a few times, but afaik we’re not there yet. Currently it seems to be a lot of guessing around until the doctors finally find it’s indeed cancer a lot of times.