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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

· 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 ...

Research shows tumor debulking in advanced colorectal cancer does not enhance survival outcomes and may increase adverse effects, questioning its efficacy.

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 ...

Stage 1 mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma is often highly treatable, and many patients achieve long-term remission after frontline therapy. Advances in chemotherapy, radiation techniques and targeted ...

A clinical trial from Keck Medicine of USC aims to provide a surgical solution for patients with a form of advanced pancreatic cancer previously considered inoperable. The study will investigate if ...

Injections and infusions are a common way to receive chemotherapy. Both methods deliver cancer-treating medications directly into the bloodstream. Chemotherapy is a common cancer treatment that uses ...

Transitional cell carcinoma is the most common form of bladder cancer. Non-muscle-invasive transitional cell carcinoma is classified as stage Ta when the tumour is confined to the uroepithelium with ...

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 ...