National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Cytoreduction surgery with hyperthermic intraoperative peritoneal chemotherapy for peritoneal carcinomatosis

The Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee has considered this procedure and NICE has now issued a consultation document about its safety and efficacy. This has been issued for four weeks’ ...
Nature

Can the utility of secondary cytoreduction for ovarian cancer be reliably established?

Despite aggressive primary surgical cytoreduction and platinum-based chemotherapy, many women diagnosed with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer who achieve primary remission will experience disease ...
Cancer Network

HIPEC Does Not Add Benefit to Cytoreduction Surgery in CRC Peritoneal Metastasis

Muhammad Talha Waheed, MD, stated that a retrospective study found an OS benefit in CRC peritoneal metastasis with cytoreduction surgery without HIPEC vs with HIPEC. CancerNetwork® interviewed ...
Cancer Network

Surgical Cytoreduction for Ovarian Cancer: Issues Awaiting Formal Clarification

The magnitude of the role surgical exploration and extirpation play in the contemporary management of patients with advanced ovarian cancer is hard to overstate. Beyond diagnostic confirmation, the ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Study Highlights Differences in Cytoreduction's Impact on Survival Among Ovarian Cancer Subtypes

The association between residual tumor volume after primary cytoreduction and survival was less consistent in patients with low-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (LGSOC) compared with other histology ...