Usually the drug with which conducted chemotherapy , Enter the blood through the IV patients. Experts from the London School of Medicine proposed a new radical way of drug delivery - directly through the abdominal cavity through a catheter. This technique is called intraperitoneal chemotherapy And now it begins to be tested in numerous medical centers around the country.
Ovarian Cancer It refers to one of the deadliest in oncology. Even in a developed from a medical point of view of the country, like the UK, statistics on it looks bleak - 6 600 new cases each year and 4300 deaths. Authors intraperitoneal chemotherapy techniques are very optimistic. They believe that they can increase the survival of at least 20%.
Head of the research program of this technique in the UK is Dr Chris Gallagher. " Ovarian Cancer Typically extends, as shown, or recurrence only within the abdominal cavity, - he says. - Atypically for him to move to other organs of the body are located outside this area. This is in contrast to many of the other cancers. We give the drug directly into the affected area, a place of concentration of the tumor. Thus, in our hands to expose the cancer is hundreds of times more powerful concentrated shock chemistry. "
Dr. Gallagher stresses that physicians need to increase efficiency Chemotherapy But not to increase its dosage. Only in this case we can speak about positive results. In addition, the impact on cancer directly reduces the ability of tumors to develop resistance to the drugs used in chemotherapy.
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