Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

This study tested a procedure to destroy precancerous cysts in the pancreas before they could turn into cancer. Doctors used a thin needle guided by ultrasound to inject a chemotherapy mix directly into the cysts. The main goal was to see if washing the cyst with alcohol before t…

This very early study aimed to see if ketoconazole, a drug used for fungal infections, could get into brain tumors at high enough levels to potentially stop cancer cell growth. Researchers planned to measure drug levels directly in the tumor tissue of a small number of adults wit…

This small, early-stage study tested whether a common antifungal drug called posaconazole can get into brain tumors at high enough levels to potentially stop cancer cells from growing. Researchers gave the drug to a few adults with a type of aggressive brain cancer before their s…