Hot chemotherapy bath

Patients see hope, but critics have doubts about treatment

By Andrew Pollack / The Bulletin
September 22, 2011

SAN DIEGO — This is cancer therapy at its most aggressive, a treatment patients liken to being filleted, disemboweled and then bathed in hot poison.

The therapy, which couples extensive abdominal surgery with blasts of heated chemotherapy to the abdominal cavity and its organs, was once a niche....

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