Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy

What is Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy?

hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is a kind of cancer treatment. The term "hyperthermic" refers to an excessively high temperature. The term "intraperitoneal" refers to inside your abdominal cavity. During your cancer surgery, HIPEC includes heating chemotherapy medications and circulating them into your abdominal cavity (region within your belly). 

Cancer is treated with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). It entails heating chemotherapeutic medicines and passing them through your abdomen. If you have advanced cancer in your abdomen, HIPEC may be a possibility. During therapy, your surgeon will remove tumors before using HIPEC to attack cancer cells that are not visible to the naked eye.

The delivery of large dosages of chemotherapy into the abdomen to treat cancer that has progressed beyond the organ from which it started is known as hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy surgery. Traditional chemotherapy can be difficult to treat abdominal malignancies that have progressed to the lining of the abdominal cavity (peritoneum). HIPEC surgery is a more successful method of therapy.