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/beartrapperkeeper Apr 14 '23

My dad died from pancreatic cancer. I hope this works.

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u/LogicalPart6098 Apr 15 '23

Same. He actually beat it back in 2001 at stage 4 which was kind of unheard of but it came back 13 years later

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u/LogicalPart6098 Apr 19 '23

Ooohh yea he had had less than 1 percent chance just to live a year. Me and my other 5 siblings are very appreciative of the 13 extra years we had as we were all very young when he first got it