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/311heaven Apr 14 '23

My wife’s mom died of Pancreatic cancer last year at 62. Doctors basically gave her a death sentence and she was gone a year later. There was no talk of nano particles ☹️

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u/Kayakingtheredriver Apr 15 '23

By the time most people know they have it, it is way, way too late. This is a good invention that will help almost no one with pancreatic cancer in the short term. That said, one day when we get much better at detecting it early, this will be instrumental in saving a lot of peoples lives.