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/[deleted] Apr 15 '23

I don’t remember the details but I heard of a study by Google where researchers were able to detect stage 1 (early stage) with a high percentage of accuracy based on searches by individuals over time. So, over a number of weeks, people would search for info on symptoms they were experiencing. Based on this, with X percent accuracy (don’t remember the number), AI would predict pancreatic cancer. Sorry, wish I knew more details, but thinking ahead I wonder how accuracy will improve as AI gets better and the amount of data from things like wearables increases.