Bathing the abdomen in heated chemotherapy as part of surgery improves survival. Most people think of the lungs when they think of mesothelioma, a cancer caused definitively by exposure to asbestos fibers that oncologists typically treat with systemic chemotherapy....
The Heat that Healed
With his abdomen covered in tiny tumors, Todd Painter was given mere months to live. Then a Hopkins team intervened with a hot new approach. Todd Painter wasn’t quite ready to wrap things up. At just 33 and at a robust 205 pounds, the former competitive wrestler had...