Experimenting with Heated Chemotherapy - Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy Video
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Experimenting with Heated Chemotherapy - Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy Video
It's called intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy. It works by flushing a heated chemotherapy drug through tissue surrounding a tumor immediately after the tumor's removed. Perry Shen, an assistant professor of surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., says "That hopefully provides kind of a mop-up or cleanup of any residual cancer cells left behind." Heat boosts the drug's potency and weakens the tumor's ability to repair itself. The targeted
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