HTTP:: New Implantable Device Monitors Tumors
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Before the best course of treatment for cancer tumors is established, analyzing them is the top priority. Biopsies are at this point the main way to do this, but they consume lots of time and resources, and also offer only a one-angled view of the problem, at a specific point in time. That is precisely why oncologists have tried for a long time to create an implantable device that could supply all the needed information from inside the patient, without the need for biopsies and other tests. Now, experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have managed to do just that. The main scientist behind the new medical instrument is MIT Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Michael Cima. “What this does is basically take the lab and put it in the patient,†he explains. He also holds an appointment at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Institute. With it, monitoring a patient's tumor may become as simple as them taking a si!
ngle trip to the doctor's office. When the first biopsy is conducted, the new implant can also be placed near the tumor, after which time no additional interventions other than the actual surgery will be required. The new device can tell experts if the drugs used for chemotherapy have reached the actual tumor or not, or if the formatio...
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