Cancer in the food pipe (oesophagus) can partly or completely block it. This makes it difficult to swallow. A stent is a small metal or plastic tube put into the oesophagus. It opens the food pipe and ...

The new drug-loaded 3-D printed oesophageal stents are stable to both UV and gamma sterilization processes. Oesophageal cancer is the seventh most common cancer in the world, and the sixth highest ...

Fabricated from polyurethane filament and incorporating the chemotherapy drug 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), the new oesophageal stents are the first to contain active pharmaceutical ingredients within ...

World-first 3D printed oesophageal stents developed by the University of South Australia could revolutionise the delivery of chemotherapy drugs to provide more accurate, effective and personalised ...

The stent offers a fully covered or partially covered option. "From the first cases in which I've used it, I found the HANAROSTENT Esophagus TTS stent to effectively palliate the symptoms of our ...

This procedure is called oesophageal dilatation. This isn't a common treatment ... Your doctor might then put a tube called a stent into the area to keep the oesophagus open. The doctor takes the ...

The catheter features a stent directly coated with the photosensitiser Al-PcS4. A research team at South Korea’s Asan Medical Center has developed a new photodynamic therapy (PDT) catheter that ...