Patent
Tumor bed implant for multimodality treatment of at risk tissue surrounding a resection cavity
27 Feb 2024
Abstract
A device having a biocompatible polymer as a body and regularly spaced radiation seeds and regularly spaced magnetic materials disposed of within the body of the biocompatible polymer, or uniformly distributed liquid radiation and magnetic fluid materials within a polymer slab, hollow thick wall polymer shell, or thin wall polymer balloon, as suitable for surgical placement within a resection cavity for treatment of at-risk tissue in the tumor margin with local hyperthermia in combination with radiation and potentially also with chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy that is slowly released from the biocompatible polymer.
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- Title
- Tumor bed implant for multimodality treatment of at risk tissue surrounding a resection cavity
- Creators
- Joseph Curry - Thomas Jefferson UniversityVoichita Bar-ad - Thomas Jefferson UniversityDavid CognettiMark Hurwitz - Thomas Jefferson UniversityAdam LuginbuhlKatsiaryna Prudnikova - Drexel University, Materials Science and EngineeringPaul Stauffer - Thomas Jefferson UniversityDario Rodrigues - University of Maryland, BaltimoreMichele Marcolongo
- Resource Type
- Patent
- Language
- English
- Patent
- US20240181274A1; A1
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991021904611704721