New chemotherapy ...

Whether new "super-chemotherapy" can win a cancer of ovaries? Doctors have developed a revolutionary way of chemotherapy which in 1 000 (!) times is more powerful than the usual. It promises hope to the women battling to serious forms of a cancer.
Usually medicines with which help the chemotherapy policy is followed, arrive in blood of patients through a dropper. Experts from the London school of medicine have offered deliveries of medicines new a radical way - directly through an abdominal cavity by means of a catheter. This technique has received the name of intraperitoneal chemotherapy, and now it starts to pass tests in numerous clinics on all country.

The cancer of ovaries concerns one of the most lethal in oncology. Even in such country developed from the medical point of view as the Great Britain, the statistics on it looks sad - 6 600 new cases every year and 4 300 morses. Authors of a technique of intraperitoneal chemotherapy are adjusted very optimistically. They believe, that can enlarge survival rate of patients, at least, by 20 %.

The head of the program of research of this technique in the Great Britain is doctor Chris Gallaher. "The cancer of ovaries, as a rule, extends, or is shown in the form of relapse only within an abdominal cavity, - he speaks. - for it atypically to pass to other organs of a body located out of this area. In it difference of the given cancer from many other things. We give medicines directly in the amazed area, a place of a concentration of a tumour. Thereby, in our arms to subject a cancer in hundreds times to more powerful concentrated blow of chemistry".

Doctor Gallaher underlines, that it is necessary for doctors to enlarge efficiency of chemotherapy, instead of to enlarge its doses. Only in this case it is possible to speak about positive results. Besides, blow on a cancer directly reduces abilities of a tumour to develop resistance to the medicines used at chemotherapy.

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