Cancer surgeons at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC) have used cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat advanced ovarian cancers. The women have been discharged since.
Venkat P., senior consultant surgical oncologist, said robotic surgery was hitherto used to treat prostate and colorectal cancers as they were localised. The hospital had introduced the Da Vinci system, which allowed doctors to treat ovarian cancers with better precision and the patient benefitted.
With most women coming for treatment at an advanced stage of the cancer, where the disease had spread across the abdomen, robotic-assisted interval cytoreductive surgery helped remove the cancer cells more precisely and reduced blood loss, ensuring quicker patient recovery, he said.
