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 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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Kevin Kingsbury was diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer in 2015. "The big C, the fear that comes with that – honestly, I thought I was going to die, because it’s cancer. But as ...

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 ...

· 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 ...

An advanced chemotherapy procedure that could be a game-changer for patients with gastrointestinal cancer is now being offered at North Florida Regional Medical Center. Hospital officials announced ...

Cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy proved to be as safe as or safer than other oncologic procedures with similar risks, according to results of a retrospective study ...

When Kéara Richardson was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer at just 37, she feared her life would never be the same again. But Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) offered her an ...

City of Hope surgical researchers are the first in the nation to open a clinical trial that could one day become an effective way to deliver chemotherapy to abdominal cancer patients who currently ...

Interventional radiology (IR) is a way to diagnose and treat cancer and other conditions without major surgery. With IR, your doctor looks inside your body with imaging tests such as ultrasounds, CT ...

Some late-stage cancer patients at the end of their options are getting a second chance at life thanks to an unconventional procedure. The Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy procedure (HIPEC) ...