Old treatment extends life of ovarian cancer patients
5th Jan 2006, 09:45 GMT
Medications are delivered directly into abdomen to target tumors Doctors have revived a 50-year-old method of delivering chemotherapy, reporting today that infusions through the abdominal wall can add more than a year of life for patients with advanced cases of ovarian cancer.
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