Toxic Tub tumor stops cancer

British scientists have developed a method of "washing" the tumor of the liver toxic drugs used during chemotherapy. This allows up to four times to extend the life of some patients with advanced cases of cancer.

Doctors arrange for tumors "bath" of drugs to increase the efficacy. One of the main problems of modern Chemotherapy   is that of the target gets less than 1% of the medicines. That is why this is theoretically a very effective method of dealing with malignant diseases are often only able to slightly extend the life of the patient.

Dr. Brian Stedman and his colleagues at Southampton General Hospital using special balloons to limit within an hour of blood to the liver of patients affected by cancer. Then it was literally bathed in medicines for Chemotherapy That is many times increases their efficiency. Called percutaneous hepatic perfusion (NWP) method involves withdrawal of blood from the patient and the treatment of her car on a special filter to reduce toxicity before going back into the body.

"The ability to first for an hour to cut the body from the body and wet it in a solution of drugs for chemotherapy, high concentration, and then fully filter the blood, it's really amazing, - said Dr. Steadman. - Previously, the forecast of a patient with metastatic cancer that has spread to the liver was negative due to the limited exposure of standard chemotherapy and the damage which it causes to healthy parts of the body. Such patients live on average, two to four months. We NWP achieve suspension of tumor growth at six months. Subsequently our team It plans to extend the technique to tumors of the breast and bowel. "

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