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Cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy consists of two parts: the first is the surgical removal of all grossly visible deposits of cancer from the abdomen; and the second is application of heated chemotherapy in salt water at the same time as the removal of the visible cancer.

There are two common combinations of chemotherapy drugs used to treat cancer of the colon, rectum, or appendix that has spread to the abdomen. One uses 5-fluorouracil (also called 5-FU), leucovorin and oxaliplatin, and is called FOLFOX. The other uses 5-FU, leucovorin, and irinotecan, and is called

A challenge in the treatment of glioma is the delivery of treatment to the brain after systemic administration due to the blood brain barrier. To improve drug delivery to the brain to achieve very high local concentrations of the anti-neoplastic agent with low system toxicity, a local regional

Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is common in advanced gastric cancer, and it carries a poor prognosis; the median survival time is 3 to 6 months. Gastric cancer with PC is considered incurable and patients are subjected to non-surgical treatment, mainly chemotherapy. Currently, there is no

Ovarian cancer is diagnosed in approximately 26,000 American women each year, and is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers. Difficult to detect, the disease typically presents only when advanced. Ovarian cancer is among the most sensitive of solid tumors to chemotherapy. However, the

OBJECTIVES: - Determine the toxicity of iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody 81C6 delivered via the intracranial resection cavity in patients with newly diagnosed primary malignant brain tumors after surgery and radiotherapy. - Determine objective therapeutic responses of these patients to this

OBJECTIVES: - Define the maximum tolerated dose of irinotecan given in combination with Gliadel wafers (carmustine) in patients with recurrent glioblastoma multiforme, anaplastic astrocytoma, or gliosarcoma. - Define the toxicity of irinotecan given in combination with Gliadel wafers in these