Deborah Armstrong Quotations

This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage.

It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see.

It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for today, this is the best thing we can offer our patients.

IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard for women with ovarian cancer. There has been a prejudice against IP therapy in ovarian cancer because it's an old idea, it requires skill and experience for the surgery and for the chemotherapy, and it's more complicated than IV chemotherapy. But now we have firm data showing that we should use a combination of IP and IV chemotherapy in most women with advanced ovarian cancer who have had successful surgery to remove the bulk of their tumor.

The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy for a long period of time, which appears to be better at destroying lingering cancer cells.