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Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer

TED Talks201600:06:08Creative Commons
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Anyone who has lost a loved one to pancreatic cancer knows the devastating speed with which it can affect an otherwise healthy person. TED Fellow and biomedical entrepreneur Laura Indolfi is developing a revolutionary way to treat this complex and lethal disease: a drug delivery device that acts as a cage at the site of a tumor, preventing it from spreading and delivering medicine only where it's needed. "We are hoping that one day we can make pancreatic cancer a curable disease," she says.

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Tedtalks;TED;Talks;TED Fellows;big problems;cancer;design;disease;entrepreneur;epidemiology;future;health;health care;illness;innovation;invention;medical research;medicine;potential;product design;science;TED2016;2016

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