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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Source: Telegraph.co.uk
UK paper The Telegraph is a running a story on a woman named Debbie Brewer, who was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in November of 2006 and is being treated with a form of chemotherapy called chemoembolisation, which features a direct application of chemotherapy agents into the malignant areas. Whereas traditional chemotherapy is a systemic treatment where the drugs are injected into the blood stream and circulate throughout the body, with chemoembolisation, the drugs are delivered to the actual tumor cells through a catheter.
Chemoembolisation is more often used for cancers that feature individual tumors with distinct boundaries, as opposed to mesothelioma which is most often characterized by a diffuse spread of malignant cells throughout a surface area. However, for Debbie Brewer, the treatment has been totally effective: the oncologists at the University Clinic in Frankfurt, Germany, the center where she has been treated, have declared her in remission. Because of the success in treating her disease, Debbie is spending Christmas with her family.
Original Title: “Pioneering treatment enables cancer sufferer to spend Christmas with family”
Labels: chemotherapy, mesothelioma, pleuralmesothelioma, treatments
posted by Joseph DiCastro at 10:16 AM
