Biomedical Engineering: Bridging Medicine and Technology 1st Edition by Veronique Tran,Mark Saltzman

Exercise 9

You are asked to design a delivery system for local treatment of breast can- cer; the system will be implanted at the site of the solid tumor and slowly release chemotherapy to the local tissue. Will you use a degradable or a non- degradable polymer? Will you use a matrix system or microspheres? Make a list of the advantages and disadvantages of each for this particular appli- cation.