For stomach cancer, aerosol chemotherapy offers breath of hope

By THE MANILA TIMES

Jun 14, 2019 8:08 pm

Surgeons operate on a patient with a pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) to reduce peritoneal metastases of pancreas and biliary tract cancer, on June 7, 2019, at the Georges-Francois Leclerc in Dijon, central-eastern France. AFP PHOTO

DIJON, France: 'Classic chemotherapy was awful... but with this treatment, I feel hope,' says French pensioner Jacques Braud, who is undergoing treatment for stomach cancer with a new form of therapy dispersed by aerosol.

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