BookKarl Reinhard Aigner, Frederick Oscar Stephens, editors.
Contents:
1. Introduction: overview, history, terminology and early clinical experience
2. The principle of dose response in antineoplastic drug delivery
3. Drug removal systems and induction chemotherapy
4. Cryotherapy
5. Local and regional hyperthermia
6. The role of hypoxia and hyperthermia in chemotherapy
7. Induction chemotherapy in head and neck cancers
8. Isolated thoracic perfusion with carotid artery infusion for advanced and chemoresistant tumors of the parotid gland and tonsils
9. Induction chemotherapy for breast cancer
10. Patients with locally advanced breast cancer receiving intra-arterial induction chemotherapy: report of a phase II clinical study
11. Regional chemotherapy for thoracic wall recurrence and metastasized breast cancer
12. Cytoreductive surgery and "hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)"
13. Induction bidirectional chemotherapy for gastric cancer with peritoneal dissemination
14. Esophageal cancer
15. Gastric cancer
16. Systemic and regional chemotherapy for advanced and metastasized pancreatic cancer
17. Interventional radiological procedures for port-catheter implantation
18. Induction chemotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma
19. Transarterial treatment of primary and secondary liver tumors
20. Pelvic perfusion for rectal cancer
21. Isolated pelvic perfusion with chemofiltration for pelvic malignancies: anal, cervical, and bladder cancer
22. Penile cancer treated by intra-arterial infusion
23. Systemic induction chemotherapy for advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancer
24. Regional chemotherapy in recurrent platinum-refractory ovarian cancer
25. Isolated limb perfusion for melanoma
26. Isolated limb infusion
27. Induction treatment in sarcomas
28. Isolated limb perfusion for locally advanced soft tissue sarcoma
29. Induction chemotherapy in treatment of sarcomas
30. Isolation perfusion systems: lungs
31. Metastatic cancers in lung: isolated lung perfusionn: clinical studies
32. Isolated thoracic perfusion with chemofiltration (ITP-F) for advanced and pretreated non-small-cell lung cancer
33. Toxicity profiles with systemic versus regional chemotherapy.