In the art house film, “Wit,” Emma Thompson plays an always-acerbic college English professor whose approach to life is challenged by the sudden onset of cancer, and the resultant treatment of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy regime is often worse than the cancer itself, what with countless visits to the hospital, as the film demonstrates, quite ably. New computer technology is changing all that. A portable, computerized pump small enough to fit in a fanny pack is altering the way cancer patients can receive their chemotherapy.
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Computer Pump Makes Chemotherapy ‘Kinder, Gentler,’ Doctors Say
Posted by: Gene J. Koprowski April 22, 2006 01:30 AMIn the art house film, “Wit,” Emma Thompson plays an always-acerbic college English professor whose approach to life is challenged by the sudden onset of cancer, and the resultant treatment of chemotherapy. The chemotherapy regime is often worse than the cancer itself, what with countless visits to the hospital, as the film demonstrates, quite ably. New computer technology is changing all that. A portable, computerized pump small enough to fit in a fanny pack is altering the way cancer patients can receive their chemotherapy.