Hyperthermic (Heated) Intraoperative Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) at Cancer Care Northwest

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07/01/23

Cancer Care Northwest Surgical Oncologist, Dr. Ryan Holbrook, MD, FACS, discusses Hyperthermic (Heated) Intraoperative Peritoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC), an innovative chemotherapy procedure performed during surgery to treat certain advanced abdominal cancers. Dr. Holbrook has been performing this advanced procedure for over 24 years, and is recognized throughout the nation for his expertise in HIPEC.

HIPEC is a procedure performed immediately following a cytoreductive surgery, which uses standard surgical methods to remove all visible tumors in the abdominal cavity. During this procedure, Dr. Holbrook delivers heated chemotherapy into the abdominal cavity to penetrate diseased tissue directly. Heated chemotherapy drugs are circulated for around 90 minutes, sometimes more, throughout the abdominal cavity to kill any remaining cancerous cells that can’t be seen. Heating chemotherapy agents makes killing the cancerous cells more effective. Your abdomen is then flushed out with a sterile solution. This therapy is effective at preventing or slowing down the recurrence of your disease.

HIPEC is used to treat cancer that has spread to the lining surfaces of the peritoneal (abdominal) cavity from primary colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer, gastric cancer, appendiceal cancer or from mesothelioma and pseudomyxoma peritonei (known as peritoneal carcinomatosis).

Learn more at CancerCareNorthwest.com.