"Linda Campbell had already beaten ocular melanoma, a rare form of skin cancer, or so she thought. Then during the summer, doctors discovered the tumors had spread to her liver.
Using new technology, doctors thread a tube up to the liver and inject the high doses of the chemotherapy drug directly to the cancer site for thirty minutes.
(ABCNews Photo Illustration)"There were so many they couldn't count them," said Campbell.
Campbell, who's 59 years old and lives with her husband outside of Lexington, N.C., learned that when cancer spreads to the liver, it becomes much more deadly.
It does not matter whether cancer starts in the breast or colon, lung or skin, the real damage is caused when it metastasizes to the liver. Every year an estimated 200,000 Americans receive the grim diagnosis and few patients survive more than a year.
"There was a lot of crying. ... And we weren't sure what to do," Campbell told ABC News..
Doctors suggested Campbell enroll in a clinical trial testing a new, radically different type of chemotherapy. This experimental technique targets only the cancer site, allowing doctors to flood the liver with 10 times the dose of a standard chemotherapy drug."
Source: ABC News
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