How does HIPEC surgery benefit patients? (Anai Kothari, MD)

Anai Kothari, MD, surgical oncologist, about how HIPEC fits in your cancer treatment and its advantages over other treatments. Dr. Kothari is part of the Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin HIPEC team.

HIPEC is a really important part of the treatment paradigm or how we treat patients with a multidisciplinary approach for several different diseases. You know I emphasize that really when we think about treating patients with this advanced type of tumor, we have to think about not just the surgery itself, but kind of the medical treatment before and after.

Sometimes that's in combination with things like radiotherapy or immunotherapy. HIPEC is one part of kind of the larger focus of treatment for this disease. Where it's especially beneficial is that you know what we're offering is treatment that's directly at that site of disease, so the peritoneal cavity within the abdomen directly. And what that has an advantage over some of the other treatment modalities for this type of disease is that it's a directed therapy at the tumor at the site and so there's of course advantages to that over other therapies.

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