DETAILS ON THE HIPEC PROCEDURE. PAM PHILLIPS IS GRATEFUL FOR EVERY MINUTE IN 2020 FOR 11 NEWS FIRST CAUGHT UP WITH HER NINE YEARS AGO WHEN SHE WAS A NEW CANCER SURVIVOR IN 2009, SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ...

Patients in El Paso with certain abdominal cancers now have access to a highly specialized treatment option closer to home ...

Brain cancers are notoriously difficult to treat because most chemotherapy drugs can't breach the blood-brain barrier, a microscopic layer of cells that protect the brain from toxins. But researchers ...

Adjuvant Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in Patients With Locally Advanced Colon Cancer (COLOPEC): 5-Year Results of a Randomized Multicenter Trial Adult patients with GC and histologically ...

HIPEC is a type of treatment for cancers that have spread within your abdomen. Doctors surgically remove the tumor and then pump heated chemotherapy drugs into your abdominal cavity. Hyperthermic ...

· First in-human trial used a novel ultrasound device to temporarily open the blood-brain barrier to deliver chemotherapy · Procedure led to a four- to six-fold increase in drug concentrations in the ...

When Kate Middleton, the princess of Wales, announced in March 2024 that she was receiving "preventive chemotherapy" following abdominal surgery, many wondered what that entails. Formally known as ...

A unique cancer treatment — known as HIPEC surgery — is going places that traditional chemotherapy treatments cannot — directly inside the abdomen to the tumor. This highly advanced, two-phase surgery ...

Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy is a type of ovarian cancer treatment in which chemo drugs are directly pumped into your belly cavity (also called peritoneal cavity). When you get chemo this way, it ...

Almost every woman with ovarian cancer will have surgery. The kind of surgery depends on your cancer type and stage, and your overall health. Because ovarian cancer has few or no symptoms, about three ...

A type of chemotherapy drug, called mitoxantrone, can potentially treat multiple sclerosis (MS) by suppressing blood cells that attack your myelin, the protective layer covering your brain and spinal ...

A targeted drug-delivery system called TAMP aims to send chemotherapy near pancreatic tumors instead of through the entire body in a Phase III trial.