PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A very specialized procedure is targeting some rare cancers. It's called HIPEC and it's a very specific type of chemotherapy done in tandem with surgery. In early 2019, ...

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 ...

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) who have peritoneal metastases should only be treated in a specialized referral center and given systemic chemotherapy before cytoreductive surgery with ...

Colorectal cancer peritoneal metastasis (CPM) confers an exceptionally poor prognosis, and traditional treatment involving systemic chemotherapy (SC) is largely ineffective. Cytoreductive surgery (CRS ...

Adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) with mitomycin C to surgery for locally advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) significantly reduced the risk of locoregional recurrence, the ...

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 ...

Tracy Gosson was shocked when she learned in 2019 that she had stage 4 ovarian cancer. With the cancer growing “at a lightning pace,” she underwent her first round of chemotherapy within three weeks ...

In 2006, the National Cancer Institute proclaimed a change of practice recommending IP chemotherapy on the basis of the GOG 172 study. 7 However, the GOG 172 study also had major flaws and reasons for ...

Intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy is a type of ovarian cancer treatment in which chemo drugs are directly pumped into your belly cavity (also called peritoneal cavity). When you get chemo this way, it ...