Patent ID: 7022097

Claim:
A method for treating in situ diseases and malignancies in a gland of a living host body comprising: (a) exposing a diseased or malignant gland of a host body to an effective amount of a therapeutic agent by infusing said agent into the blood entering said gland; (b) creating an isolated section in a major vein that spans the area where tributory veins connect with said major vein, said major vein and said tributory veins being directly associated with said gland; (c) passing contaminated effluent blood from the tributory veins of said gland to said isolated section and capturing said contaminated blood therein; (d) positioning a shunt in said major vein that by-passes said isolated section enabling blood to flow concurrently and continuously through said major vein; and, (e) evacuating said contaminated, captured blood from said isolated section without exposing other glands, organs or tissue of said host body to said contaminated effluent blood and without interrupting the general blood circulation in the system of said host body.