ConfirmedCynic t1_it89ccd wrote on October 21, 2022 at 5:27 PM

Reply to comment by arhombus 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

If it does work, it might be too costly, playing whack-a-mole with tumors as they pop up for the rest of the patient's life. There are anti-metastasis drugs under development though. Perhaps in combination with those.

arhombus t1_it8esse wrote on October 21, 2022 at 6:04 PM

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.