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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Laura Indolfi, Boston, MA (US);
Elazer R. Edelman, Brookline, MA (US);
Robert S. Langer, Newton, MA (US);
Jeffrey W. Clark, Chestnut Hill, MA (US);
David T. Ting, Dover, MA (US);
Cristina Rosa Annamaria Ferrone, Boston, MA (US);
Matteo Ligorio, Boston, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
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.