{"id":234740,"date":"2026-04-07T02:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/3d-printed-spanlastics-could-change-how-cancer-drugs-reach-tumors"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:38:28","slug":"3d-printed-spanlastics-could-change-how-cancer-drugs-reach-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/3d-printed-spanlastics-could-change-how-cancer-drugs-reach-tumors","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed \u2018spanlastics\u2019 could change how cancer drugs reach tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-spanlastics-could-change-how-cancer-drugs-reach-tumors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Mississippi research offers hope that cancer drug therapies packaged in 3D-printed carriers could deliver medication directly to tumors while reducing many of the side effects that cancer patients endure. In a study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11095-026-04068-6\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Pharmaceutical Research<\/i>,<\/a> the Ole Miss team demonstrated that 3D-printed spanlastics\u2014a tiny carrier filled with cancer-fighting drugs\u2014could be implanted directly at the site of a tumor and kill those cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis paper introduced a new 3D printing concept called FRESH 3D printing,\u201d said Mo Maniruzzaman, chair and professor of pharmaceutics and drug delivery. \u201cIt uses spanlastics as a new nano-drug delivery vehicle for anticancer drug delivery. We actually applied this on breast cancer cells and we got some really, really promising data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Traditional chemotherapy is often given orally or injected into the bloodstream, where the circulatory system disperses cancer-fighting therapy throughout the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Mississippi research offers hope that cancer drug therapies packaged in 3D-printed carriers could deliver medication directly to tumors while reducing many of the side effects that cancer patients endure. In a study published in Pharmaceutical Research, the Ole Miss team demonstrated that 3D-printed spanlastics\u2014a tiny carrier filled with cancer-fighting drugs\u2014could be implanted directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}