A clinical trial is providing hope for Kiwis with one of world's least survivable cancers... pancreatic cancer
A clinical trial is providing hope for Kiwis with one of world's least survivable cancers... pancreatic cancer
20 December 2020
The OncoSil device, developed by an Australian medical technology company, allows micro particles containing radiation to be injected directly into the tumour.
The new technology has been successfully used at Waikato Hospital three times this year to treat patients who couldn't be operated on.
Clinical director of gastroenterology Dr Frank Weilert says the treatment shrunk the tumour to an operable size in a quarter of patients, with 20 percent then receiving surgery to remove their tumours.
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