Intensive Intraperitoneal Therapy in Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Clinicians postulate that it may be interesting to combine the two IntraPeritoneal (IP) treatments associated with a significant improvement of OC overall survival i.e. cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) and postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC) as an " intensive peritoneal " regimen in the initial management of stages III-IVA ovarian cancers. Performing a postoperative IPC may allow completing and extending the duration of the effect of HIPEC in decreasing the risk of peritoneal recurrence. HIPEC may also allow administering an early IP tre