Device and Method for Maintaining Biliary Patency and Providing Local Chemotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer
Drug-eluting devices and methods for the treatment of tumors of the pancreas, biliary system, gallbladder, liver, small bowel, or colon, are provided. Methods include deploying a drug-eluting device having a film which includes a mixture of a degradable polymer and a chemotherapeutic drug, wherein the film has a thickness from about 2 µm to about 1000 µm, into a tissue site and releasing a therapeutically effective amount of the chemotherapeutic drug from the film to treat the tumor, wherein the release of the therapeutically effective amount of the drug from the film is controlled by in vivo degradation of the polymer at the tissue site.
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local drug delivery devices and methods for treating cancer
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local drug delivery devices and methods for treating cancer
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local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating cancer
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local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating pancreatic cancer
Japan | Granted | 6,431,528 -
local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating cancer
Japan | Published application -
local drug delivery devices and methods for treating cancer
United States of America | Granted | 11,167,066 -
local drug delivery devices and methods for treating cancer
United States of America | Granted | 9,301,926 -
local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating cancer
United Kingdom | Granted | 2,983,730 -
local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating cancer
France | Granted | 2,983,730 -
local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating cancer
Italy | Granted | 2,983,730 -
local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating cancer
Germany | Granted | 2,983,730 -
local drug delivery platform devices and methods for treating cancer
Spain | Granted | 2,983,730 -
local drug delivery devices and methods for treating cancer
United States of America | Published application
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