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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemoperfusion (HIPEC) is a complex treatment where chemotherapy is delivered into the abdomen through catheters after the extensive surgical removal of a tumor ...

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 ...

In over 400 women at first epithelial ovarian cancer recurrence, those who received HIPEC had a median OS of 54.3 months compared with 45.8 months for those who did not (HR 0.73, 95% CI 0.56-0.96, P=0 ...

Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and heated intra-peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in the management of peritoneal carcinomatosis in a community setting. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ASCO ...

Lewis Black was propped up on pillows in his room at Huntsman Cancer Institute, with his wife, Kara, and daughters, Miriam, 14, and Lily, 11, by his side. He was recovering from an 11-hour surgery to ...

Positive results have emerged from a trial testing PIPAC, a procedure used for appendiceal, ovarian, gastric and colon cancers that works by spraying chemotherapy directly onto tumors. Erena van der ...

A Texas Tech oncologist recently completed a new two-step procedure to treat certain cancers, for the first time in West Texas. Dr. Tyler Mouw, a Tech Physicians surgical oncologist who offers ...