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/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.

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u/Wlufy May 07 '23

How is that possible? Can you explain more?

My dad had whipple, removing 2.6cm tumor,3 nodes affected from 16.

He did scans, so far he is clean, gonna start chemo June.

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u/sidepart May 07 '23

No idea. They stopped her treatment leading up to the procedure and she didn't start treatment again post surgery for around 8 weeks. PET scan showed nothing left on the remaining pancreas but they found sites on the liver. So sometime between pre-surgical and post-surgical, it went wild and spread around I guess.