A chemotherapy pump is a device that dispenses chemotherapy drugs at a slow, controlled rate into the body. Portable versions of these devices can allow a person to receive chemo in the comfort of ...

Nowadays, many cancers can be treated with chemotherapy at home through pills, topical products, or home health nurses. Chemotherapy uses substances that are cytotoxic (toxic to cells) to interrupt ...

Climate Change and Cancer Care: A Policy Statement From ASCO Hepatic artery infusion (HAI) delivers localized high-dose floxuridine directly to liver tumors through an implanted pump. While patients ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . When administering chemotherapy to a patient with recurrent glioblastoma, physicians must overcome the ...

Researchers at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian have developed an implantable pump that can continuously deliver chemotherapy drugs directly into the brain to fight hard-to-treat cancer.

A significant obstacle to treating brain cancer is not the cancer, but the brain itself. The blood-brain barrier is an important aspect of the brain’s blood vessels that prevents poisons, viruses, and ...

Doctors in Abu Dhabi worked for five hours to place a chemotherapy pump inside a cancer patient in his sixties, an operation that could signal a new era for treatment of the disease in the UAE. The ...