A 44-year-old has had 2 kidney transplants and now has ovarian cancer — a doctor explains her difficult path forwardDear Doctor: She's had 2 kidney transplants and now has ovarian cancer. Can peritoneal dialysis give her freedom?

Dear Doctor Roach: My daughter, age 44, has had chronic kidney disease since she was 10 years old. She had a renal transplant at 23, then another at 32. The second graft started gradually failing a year back.

In January, she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. This past month, she had a total hysterectomy, along with the removal of malignant tumors and nodules. She has since been on hemodialysis without any output of urine.

What are the possibilities with peritoneal dialysis? Will this enable her to have a near-normal life?