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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

· 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 ...

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 ...

Among fit patients with acute myeloid leukemia, the combination of azacitidine plus Venclexta (venetoclax) was associated ...

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 ...

Chemotherapy (chemo) is a type of cancer treatment. It works by killing cancer cells or reducing their growth. There are many types of chemo drugs. Sometimes, more than one chemo drug is given to ...

To increase medication safety in oncology, checking procedures are increasingly applied by nurses, physicians, and pharmacists. However, little is known about the number, types, and consistency of ...