It’s a fairly universal experience to feel stuffed to the brim after Thanksgiving dinner. So Angie Ballou wasn’t overly concerned when her stomach started hurting, or even when she threw up after her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Adding hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) with mitomycin C to surgery for locally advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) significantly reduced the risk of locoregional recurrence, the ...

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.

Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provides an important treatment option that can improve survival for some patients with advanced peritoneal cancer. Managing this disease — and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is now performing HIPEC, a surgery treating patients with cancers in the abdomen. “Unfortunately, this is very common,” said Dr.

A unique cancer treatment — known as HIPEC surgery — is going places that traditional chemotherapy treatments cannot — directly inside the abdomen to the tumor. This highly advanced, two-phase surgery ...

Onvansertib in Combination With Chemotherapy and Bevacizumab in Second-Line Treatment of KRAS-Mutant Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: A Single-Arm, Phase II Trial This was a multicenter randomized phase ...

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 ...

Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) versus intravenous chemotherapy in unresectable peritoneal metastases secondary to platinum-resistant ovarian cancer: Interim analysis of ...