Patent ID: 9656014
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A61M

Claim:
1. A medical device adapted to treat cancer comprising a chamber with an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with an interior of the chamber to enable a carrier fluid to flow in one direction into the inlet, through the interior of the chamber, and out the outlet, and a plurality of tubular passageways within the chamber, said passageways assembled within said interior and configured to be placed in fluid communication with said patient to enable blood from said patient to flow through the passageways in a direction opposite to said one direction, said tubular passageways having an interior wall with a plurality of wells therein having open mouths of predetermined dimensions that enable immune cells and cancer cells in a patient's blood flowing through the passageways to pass through the open mouths and enter the wells, each well including a porous membrane wall with a predetermined average pore size that enables an activating agent introduced into the carrier fluid flowing through the interior of the chamber to pass through the well's porous membrane wall and enter said well yet prevents immune and cancer cells in the well to flow through said porous membrane wall into said interior of the chamber, and antibodies attached to a surface of the wells.