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Heated Chemotherapy – Hope for Pediatric Patients with Rare Cancer
Cancer Newsline - 12/27/2010
Guest(s): Andrea Hayes-Jordan, M.D.
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Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), or “heated chemoptherapy,” is a surgical procedure being performed for the first time on pediatric patients diagnosed with desmoplastic small round cell tumor (DSRCT) at
MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital.
Andrea Hayes-Jordan, M.D., assistant professor at MD Anderson is the only surgeon in country performing this surgery on children with this rare cancer, describes the procedure.