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Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy, or PIPAC, is a new treatment technique that gives chemotherapy in the form of a pressurized aerosol, or spray, directly into the abdominal cavity.

A retrospective study compared progression-free and overall survival of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy with conventional intraperitoneal chemotherapy in patients with ovarian cancer.

Cancers originating from organs in the peritoneal cavity (e.g., ovarian, pancreatic, colorectal, gastric and liver) account for approximately 250,000 new cancer cases annually in the USA. Peritoneal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The addition of intraperitoneal paclitaxel to systemic capecitabine and oxaliplatin appeared to benefit patients ...

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 ...

There are various strategies to the upfront treatment of ovarian cancer. For women in whom an optimal or complete cytoreduction of disease may not be feasible at the point of presentation, neoadjuvant ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy to cytoreductive surgery did not significantly prolong PFS or ...

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 ...

Based on the aforementioned PK/PD considerations, we elected a particle size of 4–6 µm to retard the lymphatic clearance and to promote distribution within the peritoneal cavity. TPMs have several ...