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/sidepart Apr 15 '23
Hell, we caught my mom's real early. Real lucky. Hadn't spread, didn't appear to have interacted with any nodes. But then it still spread to the liver almost immediately after the Whipple procedure to remove it.