Imagine this. You have been diagnosed with cancer and have been prescribed a chemotherapy protocol that will take from six months to a year to complete. However, instead of two-to-three-hour sessions each week, you are given a small battery operated pump with an intravenous line direct to an artery that provides tiny drips twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week. Because the dosage is so small and administered continuously, it virtually avoids the negative side effects of traditional chemo. No nausea, no fatigue, no hair loss, no loss of appetite, no immune system deterioration, no mouth sores, no isolation from friends and family, no pain, etc., etc. No, this probably won’t happen this month or even this year. But, continuous intravenous chemotherapy is being researched with much interest from the medical community.
