HIPEC surgery is a promising treatment option for patients with certain abdominal cancers. Surgical oncologist Erin Ward, MD, discusses which patients would be best candidates for HIPEC, explains why ...

Adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy to surgery did not improve progression-free survival in platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer. Among patients with platinum-sensitive peritoneal ...

Ovarian cancer often goes undetected until it spreads to other areas. In its late stages, it's harder to treat. Now there's an unconventional treatment being used to get rid of it. When her stomach ...

Amber and her family in the Volkswagen convertible she bought after learning she was cancer-free Amber used to live her life with anxiety and fear—always trying to stay within her comfort zone. She ...

Doctors at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) performed a rare, life-saving surgery to remove a nearly 20-kg tumour from a 43-year-old stage-4 colon cancer patient. The complex, two-stage ...

In over 400 women at first epithelial ovarian cancer recurrence, those who received HIPEC had a median OS of 54.3 months compared with 45.8 months for those who did not (HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.56-0.96, P=0 ...

Visakhapatnam: Doctors at KIMS, Seethammadhara successfully performed a nearly nine-hour-long advanced surgical procedure on a 42-year-old woman suffering from ovarian cancer.The procedure ...

Median progression-free survival (PFS) improved from 23 months with surgery alone to 25 months with the addition of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), a nonsignificant difference. Post ...

Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provides an important treatment option that can improve survival for some patients with advanced peritoneal cancer. Managing this disease — and ...

Surgical oncologist Dr. Krovvidi Lakshminarayana Rao said the patient first underwent six cycles of chemotherapy.

“We have run out of chemotherapy options for this patient, so we have referred them for surgical evaluation to see if cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC is an option.” Clearly not all patients with PM ...

Almost every woman with ovarian cancer will have surgery. The kind of surgery depends on your cancer type and stage, and your overall health. Because ovarian cancer has few or no symptoms, about three ...