Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The General Hospital Corporation

Matteo Ligorio

Robert Samuel Langer

Elazer Reuven Edelman

Robert S Langer, Jr

David T Ting

Laura Indolfi

Jeffrey W Clark

Cristina Rosa Annamaria Ferrone

Robert S Langer

Cristina Rosa Ferrone

Elazer R Edelman

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 &#x3bc;m to about 1000 &#x3bc;m, 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.

Local drug delivery devices and methods for treating cancer

Growing community of inventors

Boston, MA, United States of America

Matteo Ligorio