Delivering chemotherapy directly into the abdomen boosts survival in ovarian cancer patients
6th Jan 2006, 15:36 GMT
A 50-year-old method for delivering chemotherapy directly into the abdomen is making a comeback as investigators have found that it increases survival - by more than a year - in some women with advanced ovarian cancer. Results from a seven-year study of more than 400 patients nationwide are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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