HIPEC, or hyperthermic (heated) intraperitoneal chemotherapy is a treatment for some types of cancers that have spread to the lining of the abdominal cavity, such as cancers of the ovaries, appendix, ...
During HIPEC, the abdominal cavity is bathed with hot chemotherapy drugs, in this case cisplatin and paclitaxel, for 90 minutes to kill any remaining microscopic cancer cells.
Janos Balega, a gynaecological oncologist, said City Hospital was the first in the Midlands to have the specialised machine A hospital has started offering a technique called heated chemotherapy ...
The objective of HIPEC -- a single intraoperative procedure that delivers chemotherapy in a heated solution directly into the abdominal cavity after cytoreductive surgery -- "is to improve the ...
His focus includes treating cancers in the abdomen, complex cytoreductive surgery and heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). HIPEC is the process of delivering high-dose heated chemotherapy ...