Intra-arterial chemotherapy

Intra-arterial chemotherapy involves medications being delivered directly into an artery as close to a tumour as possible, to maximise the amount of chemotherapy delivered to the cancer cells and therefore possibly increase the effectiveness of our treatment. Traditional chemotherapy is administered through a catheter into a peripheral vein. This means the chemotherapy drug has to pass via the heart and lungs before
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