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Date:9/26/2007

eaving the liver is forced into this tube and out of the body instead of heading for the heart. Were capturing the effluent, says Taney. This blood is then passed through a filter that removes most of the drug, before being returned to the body through the jugular vein. The drug is infused for about 30 minutes, and blood leaving the liver is filtered for an hour.

Adam Markham, senior medical adviser to Cancer Research UK, says any improvements to treatments for cancer that has spread to the liver are welcome. But he cautions that none of the previous surgical attempts to isolate the liver during chemotherapy by clamping blood vessels have worked as well as was hoped. He also warns that even though there is no open surgery, the Delcath procedure might prove too much for very ill patients, and that there would be a risk that at such high concentrations the drug would damage healthy parts of the liver.


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