For stomach cancer, aerosol chemotherapy offers breath of hopeBy The Manila TimesDIJON, 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. At the age of 76, Braud is about to face his second bout of chemotherapy after the cancer in his stomach spread to two other organs. He is being treated at the Georges-Francois Leclerc hospital in the eastern city of Dijon, one of seven hospitals in France that are trialing pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy, or PIPAC, a technique developed in Germany in 2013. Although is it still being tested, chemotherapy by aerosol has shown promising results against certain cancers, in a treatment with fewer side effects that offers hope to some of the weakest patients. But with the PIPAC therapy, he has not experienced any such side effects.

Source: Manila Times June 14, 2019 12:11 UTC