Mayo Clinic Minute: New chemotherapy method for treating abdomen most cancers

Stomach most cancers is attributable to an uncontrolled progress of cells that begins within the abdomen. Most abdomen cancers are discovered when the illness has unfold past the abdomen, when a remedy is much less seemingly.

Mayo Clinic specialists are exploring new methods to assist sufferers with late-stage cancers. A brand new method to treating abdomen cancers referred to as hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) delivers heated liquid chemotherapy on to the stomach the place it could goal the most cancers. In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Travis Grotz, a Mayo Clinic surgical oncologist, discusses how HIPEC works and the potential advantages of the therapy.
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