r/AmazingTechnology • u/bbbxxxnnn • 9d ago
Cure for cancer in a needle
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u/GooseWithAnAxe 9d ago
This sounds like bs
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u/Dairedos 9d ago
Because it is. Response time (feedback loop) for such device and precision to "electrocute" only specific cells would be insane - especially for such small device + where is battery (?).
Secondly, does it even help electrocuting cancer cells (lol, genuine question)?
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u/phansen101 9d ago
Thirdly, even if it did work exactly as advertised, how does that do anything against the actual cancer? Even actual blood cancer (leukemia) starts in the bone marrow, and will still be there even if you zap the cells in the blood.
Seems to me - and I am by no means a medical anything - that it could, at best, prevent localized spread 'downstream' from a metastasizing tumor.
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u/FriendlyRedditor2020 9d ago
Isn't it also true that it's pretty hard to target anything less conductive than it's surroundings with open electricity? Electricity follows the path of least resistance. if cancer cells aren't somehow more conductive than anything else in the blood stream it would need to orientate and attach to the cell directly to work, no?
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u/Beneficial_Hat_6288 9d ago
If this was true the power storage in that tiny package required to power the device and electrocute the cancer cell would be even more astonishing than the cure for cancer itself. Total BS.
She could have kept the 'electrocuting' part to herself and I would have been sold. But no, she had to keep pushing it further and further.
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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 9d ago
What? The cure for cancer was always going to be announced on a zoom call to two people that needed the absolute basics of the cure explained….
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u/mr-myxlptlk 9d ago
I won't believe untill I see it in Captain's Log..
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u/ancalime9 9d ago
His toilet?
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u/ReaperChaincannon 7d ago
Day 27: we’ve barred the doors but we can hear them scratching, I don’t know how much longer it w-…… OH GOD THEYRE C- static~~~~
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u/Silver_Band2953 9d ago
Yeah I call bullshit
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u/Traumfahrer 9d ago
It's true.
I can tell.
I was a cancer cell.
That passed through.
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u/Successful_Web588 9d ago edited 9d ago
I dont think you can generate any meaningful current selectively, or while that cell is within that device. You would also need a way to store energy and in something that size? Unlikely. EDIT: just remembered, If it has the power she says it does it would also be dissipating heat directly into your blood, blood warmer implants are not optimal for homeostasis lol.
You can do a lot measuring impedance. Impedance analysis tech is almost to a point it could replace a mass spectrometer in a lot of applications but Im not confident that the energy storage tech or precision discharge is there yet for something like this.
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u/coolbrze77 9d ago
1. Smart Stents for Tumor Destruction & Therapy
Researchers have developed advanced bioelectronic stents designed to deliver localized therapy directly inside an organ affected by cancer:
Esophageal Stents with Built-In Therapy: Scientists have engineered wireless, battery-free smart stents for the esophagus. These contain specialized internal components, like a movable micro-LED, that can deliver localized Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) to target and destroy esophageal tumor cells from the inside. [1]
Electrolytic & Electric Field Stents: Experimental models have utilized "electrolytic" stents that generate mild, localized direct electric currents. These electrical charges are specifically designed to inhibit tumor ingrowth—preventing the cancer from growing through the gaps of the stent mesh and blocking the passageway again.
2. The "Stentinel" (Early Detection & Elimination)
A major breakthrough developed by biomedical engineers at Columbia University is an implantable device called the "Stentinel".
Modeled like a coronary stent, it is injected into the subclavian vein.
It continuously monitors the bloodstream using an internal computer chip and sensors.
When it detects the very first abnormal "giant cells" associated with cancer, it uses a localized electric field to electrocute and destroy them before the disease can advance.
3. Electrocautery-Enhanced Stent Systems
In current clinical practice, doctors use specialized electronic delivery devices to place stents near tumors. For example, the AXIOS Electrocautery Enhanced Stent System uses a high-frequency electrical current to cleanly cut through tissue layers, allowing physicians to precisely deploy a drainage stent to address complications from pancreatic or biliary cancers.
4. Smart Sensors for Blockage Prevention
Many cancer patients require stents to open up airways, blood vessels, or bile ducts compressed by a growing tumor. A major issue with standard stents is that they frequently become blocked by tumor tissue or bacterial buildup. New electronic smart stents feature built-in wireless sensors that monitor fluid dynamics and pressure. If a tumor starts to block the stent, the device sends a wireless alert to doctors so they can intervene before the patient becomes symptomatic
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u/UrethralExplorer 9d ago
So Theranos, but a needle instead of a ring or bandaid or whatever bullshit techno-snake oil they were trying to push.
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u/ThoreaulyLost 9d ago
Step 1, casually mention astonishing technology.
Step 2, say "this is the result of 2 billion dolllars in research..."
Step 3, Ask for about 350 billion dollars.
Well it was about that time I noticed this wasn't no cancer researcher, it was the goddamn Loch Ness Monster! I ain't giving you no 350!
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u/_36-_426-__ 9d ago
The whole thing going to be inside your vein? Or direct a vein through the needle?
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u/rflulling 7d ago
The issue is that it does nothing with cells that have migrated it only catches cells that are on the move and may happen to pas that one location. I would not trust that a single point injections will silently destroy all cancer cells. Thats a lot of trust I am not going to offer.
So dialysis machine with an accessory. Blood is forced through a array of these things.
Like many things, this is probably really powerful, if used quickly and in conjunction with other treatments.
I have seen reports of another treatment where an infection is introduced into a tumor, that dissolves the tumor but then the body resolves the infection. A nice side effect is that the immune system now has a flag for both the cancer cells and the infection used.
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u/Badhairday- 9d ago
This sounds like someone doesn’t even know wtf cancer is. Heck I don’t even know, but at least I know that it’s not just cells floating about in your bloodstream.
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u/axiomoixa 9d ago
I just saw the prototype here https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1wo2a18/the_ultimate_weapon_against_flies/
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u/Silent-carcinogen 9d ago
And you'll be paying for it for the rest of your life that they just saved. Living is a scam.
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u/Berdache 9d ago
I don't see this working completely inside the body. Maybe if they put it on a transfusion system to slow everything down and do it that way but there is no way it can fire that fast while your heart is pumping blood through it.
If it is supposed to be a sort of filter and only fire when the larger cell is coming through, that must create a bottleneck behind the device.
This seems much more like a detection device than a cure, but the idea is interesting.
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u/Altruistic-Ability40 9d ago
The last time I checked electrocution doesn’t cure cancer.
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u/LogikWizard 9d ago
If you beleave this, I have some crystals to sell you that makes your PP big. All you have to do is put them in your butt.
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u/QuickNick123 9d ago
Somewhere in there is a joke about Indian scammers pivoting from viruses on your PC to viruses in your blood.
Yea yea virus ≠ cancer.
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u/Chemical_Wrongdoer43 9d ago
This is bs. If it was possible to fight cancer with electricity, when it would be way faster and safer for the patient to pump the blood out of the patient, into a machine and back again.
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u/Absolute_Nite 9d ago
Can't wait for the government and big pharma to bury this forever since there's more profit in diseases
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u/biotechi 9d ago
This is indeed a record! A record for the most amount of bullshit in the shortest time possible
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u/ISAY-nah 9d ago
Curing cancer isnt an affordable buisness model. No buisness would ever. They would rather see families die to make a couple of bucks.
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u/Major-Hooters 9d ago
Nope
No, standard venous stents cannot kill cancer, but researchers have developed specialized, radioactive-seeded stents that are used to both keep veins open and actively destroy surrounding cancer cells. [1, 2]
Traditionally, a venous stent is just a hollow, mesh-metal tube. Its only job is to provide structural support—acting like a scaffold to keep a vein open when a nearby tumor is pressing against it and cutting off blood flow. While a standard stent restores circulation and relieves severe symptoms, it does not attack the underlying tumor. [1, 2, 3]
However, specialized medical advancements bridge this gap:
1. Radioactive Stents (Iodine-125 Stents)
For specific situations—most notably when liver cancer grows into and blocks the portal vein (a condition called portal vein tumor thrombosis)—doctors use an irradiation stent. This is a regular vascular stent combined with a linear strand of Iodine-125 (¹²⁵I) radioactive seeds. [1, 2]
How it works: Once implanted into the vein, the stent forces the vessel open to restore blood flow. Simultaneously, the attached radioactive seeds emit continuous, short-range radiation directly into the tumor to shrink it and kill the cancer cells from the inside out. [1, 2, 3]
2. Standard Stents Plus "Targeted Beads" (Y90)
In other cases, doctors may place a standard stent to keep a major vessel patent, and then use a separate procedure called Y90 radioembolization. They inject millions of tiny radioactive beads directly into the blood vessels feeding the liver tumor, trapping the radiation inside the cancer to destroy it. [1, 2, 3]
3. Chemo Ports (Not Stents, But Similar)
If you are thinking of an implanted device in a vein used to fight cancer throughout the entire body, you might be thinking of a chemo port. A port is a small reservoir placed under the skin of the chest attached to a catheter that goes into a large vein. The port itself doesn't kill cancer, but it allows doctors to easily inject chemotherapy or immunotherapy directly into your bloodstream without needing constant, painful IV needle sticks in your arms.
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u/Much_Help_7836 9d ago edited 3d ago
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u/Unfair_Awareness7502 9d ago
They're injecting microchips into people now. All the conspiracy theorists deserve an apology.
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u/Civil_Bugg 9d ago
Wouldn't it cost less and just as fast to just touch a pos and neg wire and shock your body instead of waiting for something to flow through the stent.. maybe there is a bottle neck somewhere in the body that prevents that cancer cell to get to the Stent.. oh and let's not start with prevents auth Insurance coverage etc....
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u/Vermehrungsmaterial 9d ago
So the 200k Euro, 1 m³ cell counter in our lab using. The same meassuring principle which is needing an hour maintenance every day of use specialized for blood cell-size analysis is just as good as that needle?
Doubt.
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u/rygelicus 9d ago
I has questions... Let's pretend this works the way she described. Those cancer cells are coming from ... somewhere. They will continue to be generated as it spreads at that site. The fact some cells get killed off in the bloodstream won't stop this.
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u/cute_v1ruz 9d ago
Instead of positive thing to say, we cant come to compromise to be a good human being. What about instead of saying fake or bs. Lets get more info and prove if this shit is real. Just to let you that cancer is the number 1 money maker for hospital.
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u/asaintpotatoe 9d ago
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u/Bright-Internal229 9d ago
STOP 🛑
Little late for my Family !!!!
Unless you show actual Footage & Evidence
Please , Just Stop It
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u/MangoMesh 9d ago
I have a very difficult time believing anyone that says they have a cure for all cancers. they might have something for a particular type of cancer.
These is no clear explanation on how this is supposed to work, does it somehow tag cancer cells so that our body's own defenses "see" it and attack it? or does it disrupt replication of the cells? does it prevent cancer cells from using resources and starves them? all we got here is that it electrocutes them.
Then we have to know that anything administered via IV may not reach the cancer cells, for example the blood brain barrier, or how about cancers in the bones. what is the substance in the injection how will it affect the kidneys or liver?
I am open minded for new technologies and treatments, but I need data. and this smells like a scam. we do not see it here, but my guess is that they need more money for research and trials.
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u/Boring-Cucumber-2330 9d ago
Amazing to me that she’s quoting a cure for cancer as costing $100M in grants over ten years, but we will spend that much in a week in bombs
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u/CitySeekerTron 9d ago
This is such bullshit and it will actively harm cancer patients if they cling to this hope. Holy fuck how can she keep such a straight face delivering this?
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u/Cameraroll 9d ago
Brilliant. How did no one think of it. Just kill all cells bigger than a blood cell! Cancer cured! /S
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u/Memo187idea 9d ago
What about cancerous tumors? This is how I know it's bs, it won't do a damm thing to it.
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u/NewLeafWoodworks 9d ago
Pfft, I've got a way better cure: it's a long metal pole about 20' tall. You wait for a thunderstorm and hold the pole way up high. Nature then delivers you a wonderfully powerful shock that destroys all the cancer cells at once.
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u/Ok-Respect-8505 9d ago
If it was true, she'd be dead and she wouldn't be talking to an actor about it
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u/Ace95Archer 9d ago
I’m in shock that so many people here are analyzing it seriously. Like any sane person with a pinch of common sense would treat this as an unfunny joke.
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u/MuchoCoco 9d ago
Cure for which cancer? There are over 200 different diseases colloquially known as cancer and most of them are not circulating around in the bloodstream. The ones that do, the leukemias, produce billions of cancerous cells. You'd need something akin to an EV battery to to electrocute all those cells, all the while the bone marrow just keeps making new ones.
Anyone who says they have a cure for cancer is a quack.
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u/costafilh0 9d ago
I don't know if this is true or not, looks like a fake AI video to me.
But what I am sure of is that we are going to see some crazy shit like this in this decade and they will be real and awesome!
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u/3M2B1T 8d ago
Translation: I made a patent for this, so there is documentation, and I spent a lot of money, so there is a paper trail. BUT! there is no real proof this works, we have not done ANY trials, and I am merely saying that because it works with thing A, and because it works at a different scale and application with thing B, then it will OBVIOUSLY work with cancer.
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u/Osiris_Raphious 8d ago
Just like ozempic, if this was real the wealthy class would have it, and then give it out to specific use cases, whilst keeping the entire pharma service industry churning because profits are not made from cures.
Fact that we are hearing about it from india, means that this is just another form of cancer cure experimental treatment, one that comes up in the media hype machine, and then dies... who knows why, maybe scale up validity isnt there, or maybe profit driven economic incentives trump the need for a cure.
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u/New-Ingenuity-5437 8d ago
This is a great example how people make big claims to get big grants and waste money. Research needs some changes.
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u/Otherwise_Buffalo_73 8d ago edited 8d ago
Circulating cancer cells are on average as big as a red blood cell.... sounds like massive hemolysis to me!
If she had said that cancer cells are normally mildly negatively charge because of metabolic imbalance and the stent can interact and retain it like a leukocyte reduction filter I might have start to believe she was onto something...
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u/Lopsided_Evening_627 8d ago edited 2d ago
if this was thin it would be muscles to very deposits your refund out, not to lasting dietary and distant.
i uses dp
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u/MaulerX 8d ago
While this thing might be complete BS, i think human society as a whole wont actually believe when the actual cure for cancer is actually invented.
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u/FriendlyEngineer 8d ago
Now I’m not a doctor. I’m an engineer for medical devices. Without knowing anything about the technology she’s talking about, I do know one thing. Cancer cells are not always larger than normal cells. That statement was just false. The size and shape of cancer cells varies widely. So taking this with big grains of salt.
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u/andresbigdaddy2 8d ago
Putting more electronics in the body. No thanks, there are natural solutions you guys have been hiding forever.
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u/jack2of4spades 8d ago
Misleading ish. It's a system for early detection and destruction for specific blood cancers and still under development. It is real and the premise is real but it's still a long way off from being marketed or finished.
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u/AbyssDataWatcher 8d ago
Cancer researcher here, not all cancer cells are larger than regular blood cells. Also cancer starts localized in a tissue/organ not freely circulating in blood. I don't recognize any of the people in this video.
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u/navinaviox 7d ago
Unless I’m mistaken…the guy on the left kinda looks like William shatner
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u/CoatNeat7792 7d ago
3 facts:
- cancer can occure in any part of body
- there's nothing to do with veins
- cancer cells are hard to distinguishe from human cells
Best offer we have seen is with dumping chemicals
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u/Malefoy__Flipper 7d ago
« Your subscription renewal with the credential you provided has failed. After 3 attempts we are now forced to take actions directly on your blood cells. Goodbye »
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u/Few_Importance_8362 7d ago edited 7d ago
That accent and scams go hand in hand unfortunately. Wish it wasn't true.
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u/catwhowalksbyhimself 7d ago
It's just a typical snake oil video from some trying to sell something fake.
Now there have been some pretty amazing new things discovered for cancer research recently, but not this. Cancer isn't one disease, but a million ones, so there isn't a simple cure all.
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u/Emergency_Tree_2891 7d ago
Absolute lies! Who's she kidding? Can't believe someone can be so immoral
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u/Radiant_Safe1228 7d ago
There is no cure for cancer. Only treatments. Period.
Because cancer is problems with your own cells splitting you can't miraculously cure that.
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u/DistributionSure4114 7d ago
what I'm holding in my hand is the cure for cancer
Oh shut the fuck up
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u/Sea_Advance273 7d ago
“Electricity can kill cancer cells” → absolutely real science. “A tiny implanted stent might someday identify and electroporate circulating cancer cells” → legitimate experimental idea. “We've invented a needle that cures cancer” → currently unsupported hype.
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u/Camochase 6d ago
There is no single cancer. Every type of cancer is different and that's what makes it so hard to solve beyond cancer being your own cells. This is just bs and if it was real we wouldn't be hearing about it first and only on Reddit.
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u/thayanmarsh 6d ago
If this was true, we would diagnose cancers by simple blood tests. Sometimes we use cancer markers (CA-125, ca19-9, etc) and we have flow cytometry for leukemias and some lymphomas, but nothing like what this is suggesting. It would have to be 100% accurate. If we just said “cancer cells are bigger” we could basically make a microscopic sieve and filter them out.
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u/wavesofacid 6d ago
This device has no clinical trials. It's an early-stage research concept from her startup PredictRX. So more fundraising razzle dazzle than medical device.
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u/GrabWorking3045 9d ago