New minimally invasive technologies for the treatment of pancreatic cancer

我们的愿景是挑战胰腺癌是一种选择极其有限的预后的思维定势，并实现革命性的未来治疗，这些治疗将挽救生命，使患者能够生活在没有重大副作用的生活中。新的工程和物理科学对目前最致命的癌症(死亡率为95%；2年)做出了重要贡献。这项研究将围绕创造基于微尺度、磁力驱动的软连续体机器人的新的微创技术。这些新技术将使人们能够非破坏性地接触到胰腺复杂而敏感的内部解剖结构，并允许提供有针对性的治疗。这些新技术将解决当前胰腺癌的临床挑战，同时还将提供未来出现早期诊断可能性时所需的治疗方法。

Our vision is to challenge the mind-set of pancreatic cancer being a prognosis of extremely limited options and to enable revolutionary future treatments that will save lives and allow patients to live without major side-effects. Novel engineering and physical science has an essential contribution to make against what is currently the deadliest form of cancer (mortality 95% <2yrs). This research will centre around the creation of new minimally-invasive technologies based on microscale, magnetically-driven, soft continuum robots. These will newly enable non-destructive access to the intricate sensitive internal anatomy of the pancreas and allow targeted treatments to be delivered. These new technologies will tackle current clinical challenges in pancreatic cancer, while also providing the treatment methods that will be required as possibilities for earlier diagnosis emerge in the future.