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 ...

Ovarian cancer often goes undetected until it spreads to other areas. In its late stages, it's harder to treat. Now there's an unconventional treatment being used to get rid of it. When her stomach ...

Amber and her family in the Volkswagen convertible she bought after learning she was cancer-free Amber used to live her life with anxiety and fear—always trying to stay within her comfort zone. She ...

Adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to cytoreductive surgery significantly improved overall survival (OS) in women with platinum-sensitive, recurrent epithelial ovarian carcinoma, ...

Validity of the Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Sexual Interest and Satisfaction Measures in Men Following Radical Prostatectomy Compared with CRSa, CRS-HIPEC improved ...

Almost one-third of patients undergoing omentectomy for peritoneal metastases had occult omental metastases, supporting routine omentectomy prior to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - When we think of cancer, we think of cancer tied to an organ like lung cancer. But abdominal cancer can include so much more than the organs inside the belly. The good news is ...

From left, Dr. Vadim Guschin, Director of Mercy’s heated chemotherapy (HIPEC) program and a member of the Surgical Oncology Department, and Armando Sardi, M.D., Medical Director of The Institute for ...

Cytoreductive surgery/hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS/HIPEC) programs are often limited to centers in developed countries because of extensive requirements. We aimed to analyze efficacy ...

Almost every woman with ovarian cancer will have surgery. The kind of surgery depends on your cancer type and stage, and your overall health. Because ovarian cancer has few or no symptoms, about three ...