In clinical practice, only a few risk factors remain that can be modified based on the decisions of patients and their physicians. The surgical decision making and chemotherapy administration choices, ...

Intraperitoneal chemotherapy is a treatment for cancers in the abdomen or belly area. This treatment delivers anti-cancer drugs directly into the peritoneal cavity, the area in the belly that contains ...

In patients with tumors confined to the peritoneal cavity, there is established pharmacokinetic and tumor biology-related evidence that intraperitoneal drug administration is advantageous. Three large ...

At Fred Hutch Cancer Center and University of Washington Medical Center, we have an experienced team that provides CRS-HIPEC. Many of our patients receive all their cancer care through Fred Hutch and ...

Safety and efficacy of PIPAC in patients with ovarian cancer with peritoneal metastases: A first-in-US phase I study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This ...

HIPEC is a type of treatment for cancers that have spread within your abdomen. Doctors surgically remove the tumor and then pump heated chemotherapy drugs into your abdominal cavity. Hyperthermic ...

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 ...

This treatment yields overall median survivals of approximately 37 months in patients with suboptimally debulked disease (residual tumor, >1.0 cm in diameter) and 49 months in those with optimally ...

What is intraperitoneal chemotherapy? Your peritoneal (payr-ih-toh-NEE-ul) space is the area between the muscles and organs in your abdomen (belly) (see Figure 1). There is a little fluid between the ...

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 ...