Another article on the effectiveness of HIPEC (cytoreductive surgery with intraoperative hyperthermic chemotherapy) in the news.  This story comes out of India and highlights doctors there and the HIPEC procedure for treatment of abdominal cancers (intestinal and ovarian cancers.)

The Future is Now..  in an article on Medscape, dated December of 2010 and originally published in Future Oncology, Dr. Ze Lu et. al discusses the future of cancer treatment.  (The article is several pages in length – so I haven’t re-posted but reference information is provided below).  Dr. Ze Lu and his colleagues believe the future of oncology treatment is…. Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy (HIPEC)..

In August, we’ll check back in with Bogotá’s resident expert on HIPEC, Dr. Fernando Arias.

Reference:

Lu, Z., Wang, J.,  Wientjes, G., & Au, J. (2010).  Intraperitoneal therapy for peritoneal cancer.  Future Oncology. 2010 (6) 10; 1625 -1641