A recent Medgadget article discussed a new wearable device that shrinks glioblastoma tumors. Glioblastoma is an aggressive type of cancer that occurs in the brain or spinal cord. It is the most common brain malignancy, and is almost always lethal. However, the new device aims to change that. The wearable may look exactly like a novelty beer helmet, but its function couldn’t be more different. Worn daily for treatment, it uses an oscillating magnetic field to disrupt the biochemical processes inside cancer cells.
Oscillating Magnetic Field Helmet Shrinks Tumors
After just a month of regular use, the non-invasive device shrunk a glioblastoma tumor by 31%.
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