Combined treatment with surgery and intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion (IPHP) for far-advanced gastrointestinal cancer with peritoneal seeding |
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| Authors: | S Fujimoto R D Shrestha K Kobayashi S Koike M Kokubun S Kiuchi M Takahashi C Konno K Okui |
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| Affiliation: | 1st Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan. |
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| Abstract: | In 19 patients with advanced gastric carcinoma intraperitoneal hyperthermia combined with mitomycin C was administered. After this therapy in repeated cytological examinations of the peritoneal effusion malignant cells could be determined. From 19 patients 5 died innert the first 10 months. The other patients lived 12 months without recurrence. |
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