{"id":242251,"date":"2026-08-05T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/implant-design-helps-fight-ovarian-cancer-from-the-inside"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T14:17:07","slug":"implant-design-helps-fight-ovarian-cancer-from-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/implant-design-helps-fight-ovarian-cancer-from-the-inside","title":{"rendered":"Implant design helps fight ovarian cancer from the inside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/implant-design-helps-fight-ovarian-cancer-from-the-inside2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed an implant that could deliver next-generation therapies for ovarian cancer precisely where they are needed while simultaneously monitoring how the disease responds.<\/p>\n<p>The project was carried out by a team at C\u00daRAM, the Research Ireland Centre for Medical <i>Device<\/i>s based at the University of Galway, along with collaborators from the University of Minnesota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Wyss Institute.<\/p>\n<p>The research was <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2666998626000025\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Device.<\/i> It showed how the team developed a flexible, porous implant designed to sit inside the peritoneal cavity\u2014the space surrounding the abdominal organs in a woman\u2019s body where ovarian cancer predominantly occurs. The device is designed to connect to an external port through the skin so it can be replenished with therapeutic agents as often as needed without requiring further surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed an implant that could deliver next-generation therapies for ovarian cancer precisely where they are needed while simultaneously monitoring how the disease responds. The project was carried out by a team at C\u00daRAM, the Research Ireland Centre for Medical Devices based at the University of Galway, along with collaborators from the University of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242251","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}