Dr. Leah Backhus discusses how the minimally invasive chemotherapy technique offers a new option for pleural mesothelioma patients who aren't candidates for more extensive surgery. CHESTNUT HILL, MA / ...

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 ...

What Is Adjuvant Chemotherapy (Preventive Chemotherapy)? Adjuvant chemotherapy – also called preventive chemotherapy – is a cancer treatment you get after surgery, radiation, or other main treatments ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic cancer who took an oral once-daily pill called daraxonrasib lived ...

When chemotherapy drugs accidentally leak into the tissues surrounding your veins or catheter, it’s called extravasation. While it doesn’t happen very often, it’s a serious complication. Chemotherapy ...