Rare Cancer Treated with Surgery, Internal Chemotherapy TechniqueFor patients with certain forms of cancer, an intraoperative chemotherapy procedure--known as HIPEC (hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy)--given at the end of surgery offers a promising treatment option.
Patient's Proactive Health Approach Helped Her Battle Pancreatic CancerSophia Swann, 71, of Springboro, Ohio, considers herself very lucky. In 2011, she thought she had been given a death sentence when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The disease affects about 44,000 people annually, but is the fourth-leading cau...
Focus on Faculty With Scott LangevinScott Langevin, PhD, joined the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine Department of Environmental Health in July 2013, where he will focus on cancer-related gene-environment interaction research as part of the UC Cancer Institute. The UC Ca...
Researchers Show How Brain's Micro-Environment Fuels Metastatic Tumor GrowthWhen a cancer cell breaks off from a tumor in the breast, lung or other part of the body and flows through the bloodstream to the brain, trouble erupts. How the process unfolds is vividly described by cancer researchers at the Brain Tumor Center at the...