HIPEC addition to SCS did not improve progression-free survival in platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer patients. Both SCS alone and SCS with HIPEC groups exhibited similar safety profiles, ...

Patients with recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer did just as well with cytoreductive surgery alone as they did with surgery plus intraperitoneal chemotherapy, according to a randomized trial.

The impact of cumulative toxicity on physical quality of life in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer receiving first line chemotherapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2017 ASCO ...

Phase I study of mFOLFOX-6, bevacizumab, and mTOR inhibitor RAD001 as first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer. Phase II study alternating mFOLFOX 6 and FOLFIRI (FIREFOX) plus bevacizumab ...

Patients with stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC) had lower overall and disease-free survival if they had a pelvic exenteration (PE) or cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy ...

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 ...

In summary, this study identified four independent prognostic factors that could be intervened for GC patients, including curative resection, HIPEC, postoperative SAE and systemic chemotherapy, and ...

The first incision slices open a patient’s belly from chest to groin. It gives surgeons working room to lift each organ, running gloved fingertips along their surfaces to find tumours as small as a ...

Lucknow: Gynaecological oncology department at King George's Medical University performed successfully successfully its first HIPEC (heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy) procedure, less than eight ...

Lucknow: In a beacon of hope for patients, King George's Medical University (KGMU) has started offering hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (Hipec) for those suffering from advanced abdominal ...