UNC Spinout Developing Device for Better Chemo Delivery

Pancreatic cancer is an elusive and deadly disease. It often has no initial symptoms, and there are no reliable tests for early detection. The mortality rate is 75 percent within a year of diagnosis, and the five-year survival rate is only 8.5 percent. And for those whose tumors have spread too far to be surgically removed, life expectancy is only six months to a year.