Are you interested in crowd funding to help try to end barbaric radiation treatments for breast cancer, and to support biotech in Chicago? Here’s an opportunity for you. Chicago doctors and engineers from Northwestern seek $15k to build a new device to treat breast cancer WITHOUT radiation. It’s an award winning idea for a new device using heat – at the time of the lumpectomy – to kill any remaining cancer cells. The device could eliminate weeks of radiation after surgery. The company is Innoblative Designs. This article recaps the idea, and Innoblative’s award wins to date. The crowd funding web site is here.
I’m in – who else wants to see Chicagoans help stop some damn cancers and grow our biotech?