Novel device to reduce chemotherapy's harmful side effects
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Novel device to reduce chemotherapy's harmful side effects

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Researchers have developed a new 3D-printed device that could help reduce side effects of chemotherapy such as hair loss, nausea and heart failure. But if excess chemotherapy drugs could be removed from a patient's bloodstream after they have worked, they might reduce the side effects. But using the device, excess doxorubicin can be filtered out from the blood at locations outside of the tumour to reduce the harmful effects of the drug on the healthy cells. The device could open a new route to help patients fight cancer, enabling reduced side effects or an increased chemotherapy dose, the researchers noted.

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