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Chemotherapy
For a decade, investigators at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center have been developing heated chemotherapy -- in conjunction with surgery -- as a method to treat certain types of advanced abdominal cancers. Through technology transfer, this chemotherapy method will soon be readily available nationwide.
The process, called intraperitoneal heated chemotherapy, has been extending the lives of patients for whom few treatment options are left. Though clinical trials involving use of this new chemotherapy treatment are still underway at the Medical Center for abdominal and ovarian cancer, use of intraperitoneal heated chemotherapy is now the standard of care at Wake Forest for treatment of gastrointestinal and other tumors that have spread to the lining surfaces of the abdomen.
Intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy (IPHC) is a surgical procedure performed at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and other medical centers around the country for patients with tumors involving the abdominal wall. Traditionally, patients with ovarian or gastrointestinal tumors that had spread to the abdominal walls had a very poor prognosis prior to intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy. During IPHC, a heated chemotherapy solution is circulated throughout the abdominal cavity as the surgeon removes the tumors.
Learn more about chemotherapy at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University. As a national leader in cancer care & research and ranked among the best treatment facilities in the country, it is one of only 38 cancer centers in the nation designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. NCI designation is an assurance of excellent care and comprehensive treatment options, including access to the latest clinical trials.
Chemotherapy
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