Scientists have found a new way to treat hard-to-reach cancer

Pancreatic cancer is today considered one of the deadliest types of oncology - five years after the discovery of this disease, only 6% of patients survive. Traditional treatments have no effect on pancreatic cancer, but American researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new device that will deliver medicine directly to the site of cancer, which will make it possible to significantly increase the life expectancy of such patients.

The difficulty in treating pancreatic cancer is that tumors are always aggressive and spread rapidly, while being surrounded by dense tissue with a small number of blood vessels, so it is difficult to deliver the drugs. The new device, called iontophoresis for the time being, will be implanted directly into the tumor in a minimally invasive surgical manner and deliver drugs. This device can also be used for other types of cancer, including oncology of the head, breast and neck - then it can be simply attached to the skin next to the tumor.

Joe DeSimon, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that the new device is also effective because the delivery of chemicals to fight cancer will have a lesser toxic effect on the patient’s body, writes AmericaRu.com