Letter P

Perfusion

A chemotherapy technique that may be used when melanoma occurs on an arm or leg.

The flow of blood to and from the limb is stopped for a while with a tourniquet, and anticancer drugs are put directly into the blood of the limb.

This allows the patient to receive a high dose of drugs in the area where the melanoma occurred

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