Chemotherapeutic Perfusion

**Semantic type:** Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure

**Definition:** The process of flooding fluid through the artery to saturate the surrounding tissue. In regional perfusion, a specific area of the body (usually an arm or a leg) is targeted and high doses of anticancer drugs are flooded through the artery to reach the surrounding tissue and kill as many cancer cells as possible. Such a procedure is performed in cases where the cancer is not thought to have spread past a localized area.

**Synonyms:** - Perfusion - perfusion