Onkologie. 2017:11(6):281-285 | DOI: 10.36290/xon.2017.051
Gastric cancer is a serious disease frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage. A significant tendency to peritoneal disseminationwith a significant negative effect on survival is the idea leading to the effort to affect the peritoneal component of the disease.Radical multimodal therapy including chemotherapy, cytoreductive surgical therapy and hypertermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy(HIPEC) is currently under consideration in several studies. The most common indications include limited peritonealspread, Krukenberg tumor, T3 and T4 tumor stage, diffuse carcinoma with scirrhotic growth, lymph node involvement, lowtumor differentiation, perforated carcinoma and positive cytology findings in peritoneal lavage. A slight increase in morbidityand comparable mortality make the procedure acceptable in safety. Repeatedly, prolongation of long-term survival and eventhe possibility of curative effect in limited carcinomatosis have been confirmed. In the future, further widening of the indicationcriteria and clarifying the benefits of HIPEC for both manifest and prophylactic indications can be expected.
Published: December 1, 2017 Show citation