AdventHealth Tampa is first in Tampa Bay to offer implantable chemotherapy pump for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Hepatic Artery Infusion therapy delivers treatment directly tometastatic tumors in the liver, while minimizing the potential for systemic side effects

TAMPA, Fla., March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- AdventHealth Tampa is the first in the Tampa Bay area to offer a powerful new pump-based treatment option for colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver and for a rare form of cancer that forms in bile ducts within the liver called intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.

Hepatic Artery Infusion (HAI) therapy uses a pump that is implanted just below the skin in a patient's abdominal wall to deliver medicine directly to the liver through the hepatic artery, maximizing drug delivery to the tumors without adding systemic side effects.