The device is implantable under the skin near the spinal cord, programmable by a clinician, and used to deliver medications for the treatment of severe chronic pain due to nerve injuries and cancer.

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The three existing trials look at the medicines' effects on cancer pain and brachial plexus injury - a severe form of nerve-damage pain, as well as general MS pain.

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