Directly into tumor: TACO ( Trans Arterial Chemo Perfusion ) Chemotherapy will have bad effects on normal tissue in order to minimize and to give more effective concentration of drugs , injected directly into blood vessel that supplies the tumor . some times done in advanced pancreatic tumors, liver etc. It needs a procedure catheters are placed into the artery near the tumor and removed when completed
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Transarterial chemo: The present day approach to managing patients with locally advanced cancer is to employ systemic chemotherapy and more recently immunochemotherapy.. When disease is confined to an organ or region transarterial chemo perfusion can be employed with more effective delivery of the drug directly to the tumor. In organs such as liver embolization of the artery follows to minimize blood flow to tumor
Answered 12/27/2015
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