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First “Chemo Bath” in the UK

by Kathy Jones on November 12, 2012 at 5:37 PM
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 First “Chemo Bath” in the UK

Doctors at Southampton General Hospital performed the first "chemo bath" in UK in which they have targeted a single organ with toxic cancer drugs in order to reduce the damage caused by chemotherapy on healthy organs of the body.

Dr Brian Stedman, who is a consultant interventional radiologist at the hospital, revealed that the procedure works by isolating the organ from the rest of the body for around 60 minutes, adding that the procedure has been performed on two patients so far.

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"o cut off an organ from the body for 60 minutes, soak it in a high dose of drug and then filter the blood almost completely clean before returning is truly groundbreaking. Previously, the outlook for patients specifically suffering from cancer which has spread to the liver has been poor because standard chemotherapy's effect is limited by the unwanted damage the drug causes to the rest of the body", he said.


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