HAMMR is an implanted device that serves as both a cancer-detection system and a drug-administration system.
, MD and Vice Chair for Clinical Research and the Director of the Gynecologic Cancer Immunotherapy Program are two of the principal investigators of the THOR team which will work on HAMMR."To get a real-time understanding of how our cancer cells are changing so we can change in parallel," Jazaeri said.
"We know they're safe. We know we can program them into whatever biologic we want, and yeah, they'll be grown in a factory and loaded into the device and when they reside in the abdomen they're alive -- meaning they get nutrients from your body like our other cells that exist and leverage that and turn it into the drugs," Vesieh said.
"This device will communicate wirelessly, potentially with a smartphone, and also be chargeable externally," Jazaeri said.It allows doctors to react to what's happening to the cancer a lot quicker than it takes to get test results, which could take months.
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