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Oddly enough I've just been looking into a veterinary treatment method for superficial tumours based around cytostatica in combination with electric pulses - de
by the_third_wave 4y ago
Oddly enough I've just been looking into a veterinary treatment method for superficial tumours based around cytostatica in combination with electric pulses - delivered by a pulse generator controlled by a Raspberry Pi - which are supposed to increase the efficacy of the cytostatica by 'electroporation' [1]. I'm mostly looking into this because the glossy site and the presentation given at my wife's vet clinic have a relatively high snake oil coefficient although there is some science [2] behind the process. It seems to come down to a combination of a TENS machine [3] (which can be had for around £40-60, ₤80 if you want it remotely controlled through your phone) with needle probes except for the fact that a 10-pack of 4-needle probes costs €2.500 while the machine itself - a Raspberry Pi with a keyboard, a pulse generator and an LCD screen in a compact box - costs around €25.000...
[1] http://vetiqure.se/our-products/ http://vetiqure.se/our-products/
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5092241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5092241/
[3] https://www.boots.com/health-pharmacy/electrical-health-diagnostics/tens-machines https://www.boots.com/health-pharmacy/electrical-health-diag...
- cududa 4y agoPlease for the love of god tell me you're not testing this on animals and if you are, you have actual medical training?
- the_third_wave 4y agoWhy do you assume that I am testing 'this' on animals? Why do you ask whether I have 'actual medical training'? How do you think the original product was developed? Not so much in response to this rather grandstanding appeal to authority but just to describe how a product like this can be developed I can state that my wife is a veterinarian specialised in horses while I am a developer with a lot of experience in developing hard- and software. If we wanted to develop something like this we certainly could and maybe we will. Medical technology is not magic after all, the process which lies behind this system is known and has been researched [1] extensively - not by those who built the €25.000 unit, they just did what you insinuated we should not do. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/electroporation https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biolog...