Christopherm Colangelo News Today

When cancer patients undergo chemotherapy, the dose of most drugs is calculated based on the patient's body surface area. This is estimated by plugging the patient's height and weight into an equation, dating to 1916, that was formulated from data on just nine patients.

To improve chemotherapy dosing, MIT engineers designed CLAUDIA, a way to continuously measure how much drug is in a patient’s system during hours-long infusion.