Induction Chemotherapy

Introduction: Overview, History, Terminology and Early Clinical Experience.- The Principle of Dose-Response in Antineoplastic Drug Delivery.- Drug Removal Systems and Induction Chemotherapy.- Cryotherapy.- Local and Regional Hyperthermia.- The Role of Hypoxia and Hyperthermia in Chemotherapy.- Induction Chemotherapy in Head and Neck Cancers.- Isolated Thoracic Perfusion with Carotid Artery Infusion for Advanced and Chemoresistant Tumors of the Parotid Gland.- Induction Chemotherapy For Breast Cancer.- Patients with Locally Advanced Breast Cancer receiving Intra-Arterial Induction Chemotherapy: report of a Phase II Clinical Study.- Regional Chemotherapy with Thoracic Wall Recurrence and Metastasized Breast Cancer.- Cytoreductive Surgery and "Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy-HIPEC.- Induction Bidirectional Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Dissemination.- Esophageal Cancer.- Gastric Cancer.- Systemic and Regional Chemotherapy for Advanced and MetastasizedPancreatic Cancer.- Interventional Radiological Procedures for Port-Catheter Implantation.- Induction chemotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.- Transarterial Treatment of Primary and Secondary Liver Tumors.- Pelvic Perfusion for Rectal Cancer.- Isolated Pelvic Perfusion with Chemofiltration for Pelvic Malignancies - Anal, Cervical and Bladder Cancer.- Penile cancer treated by intra-arterial infusion chemotherapy.- Systemic Induction Chemotherapy for Advanced Stage Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.- Regional Chemotherapy in Recurrent Platinum-Refractory Ovarian Cancer.- Isolated Limb Perfusion for Melanoma.- Isolated Limb Infusion.- Induction treatment in sarcomas.- Isolated Limb Perfusion for Locally Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma.- Induction Chemotherapy in Treatment of Sarcomas.- Isolation Perfusion Systems: Lungs.- Metastatic Cancers in Lung: Isolated Lung Perfusion - Clinical Studies.- Isolated Thoracic Perfusion with Chemofiltration (ITP-F) for Advanced and Pre-treated Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.- Toxicity Profiles with Systemic versus Regional Chemotherapy.