BHUBANESWAR: Apollo Cancer Center, Bhubaneswar has performed Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) successfully on a 52-year-old woman patient recently.
This procedure was done by Salil Kumar Parida, consultant surgical gastroenterology and gastrointestinal oncosurgery, of the centre for the first time in Odisha.
Almost four years back the patient was diagnosed with Appendiceal mucinous neoplasm with Pseudomyxomaperitoni for which she had undergone cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC in July 2018 in New Delhi. The patient was on regular follow up since then. Recently, the patient came to Chinmaya Pani, medical oncologist, Apollo Cancer Center with complaints of abdominal distension for about a month.
After examining the patient and running all the essential tests, Pani found that the patient has again developed a recurrence of the tumour and he referred the case to Salil Kumar Parida for surgical intervention and HIPEC.