Oncologists Treat Patient’s Rare Cancer With Isolated Chemotherapy Delivery, Preventing Side-Effects

Oncologists Treat Patient’s Rare Cancer With Isolated Chemotherapy Delivery, Preventing Side-Effects

Oncologists Treat Patient’s Rare Cancer With Isolated Chemotherapy Delivery, Preventing Side-Effects Bozena and Dr. Chandra in the Northwestern clinic – credit, Northwestern Medicine A woman in Illinois has become the first to undergo a unique cancer treatment that allows chemotherapy drugs to be delivered directly to the liver, reducing side-effects. Chemotherapy drugs can shrink cancer tumors, but if administered generally can affect many other organs and tissues in the body. Via a Hepzato Kit, however, oncologists were able to isolate the supply of blood to her liver, and infuse the drugs directly to the tumor site. Detailed in a news release by Northwestern University, the woman, 66-year-old Bozena Wojtach, was diagnosed with uveal melanoma last year after her optometrist identified a mass behind her right eye that was causing light flashes in her vision. Uveal melanoma is a rare kind of eye cancer which typically metastasizes in the liver via tumors which can’t be removed surgically. …