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arhombus t1_it8esse wrote

Reply to comment by ConfirmedCynic in Engineers at Duke University have developed a novel delivery system for cancer treatment involving a radioactive implant demonstrating its potential against one of the disease’s most troublesome forms: pancreatic cancer. by chrisdh79

There's been chemo cocktails for pancreatic cancer for several decades, the same ones. GTX is one of them. Same problem though, the patient is usually too weak to continue. So they put em on a less toxic drug like capecitabine and then they die.

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