A new high-tech implant has shown “promise” in fighting some of the deadliest forms of cancer.

The cancer-fighting device safely triggers “potent” immune responses against hard-to-treat cancers, including metastatic melanoma, and pancreatic and colorectal tumors, say American scientists.

A team of researchers from the Rice Biotech Launch Pad at Rice University in Houston developed the implantable “cytokine factory”