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 ...

· 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 ...

Oklahoma Children's Hospital is pioneering a targeted chemotherapy treatment for retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer in ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Options for Endocrine-Refractory, Hormone Receptor–Positive Breast Cancer: Which Target and When? In this international, multicenter, open-label phase III trial, patients with CLM who progressed on ...