More Cancer Patients Try Risky ‘Hot Chemo Bath’

A combination of surgery and heated chemotherapy is rising in popularity—even though patients compare it “to being filleted, disemboweled and then bathed in hot poison,” writes Andrew Pollack in the New York Times . The surgery plus heated chemo, or Hipec, involves cutting the patient open, probing the body for…

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More Cancer Patients Try Risky ‘Hot Chemo Bath’

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