Has anyone actually had the HIPEC treatment with recurrent ovarian cancer

antcat
antcat Member Posts: 270
in Ovarian Cancer #1
I've been doing alot of reading about the HIPEC treatment and was wondering if anyone on this board has actually gone thru this treatment. Can it be done when all other chemotherapies have more or less failed? If anyone has had it, were the side effects bad, and what were the results? Thanks.

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  • MaxRudy
    MaxRudy Member Posts: 56
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    HIPEC
    I had this surgery in Jan 2011 and am currently in the middle of Carbo/Taxol chemo. I was dx in Dec 27, 2010 with a lot of abdominal tumors, some quite large. I came across "HIPEC" on the internet and decided it made a lot of sense for me. IT IS A DIFFICuLT surgery with a lot of potential complications. I also talked to 3 people who had HIPEC for colon cancer. My inference was these 3 people weren't that satisfied with their surgeries....one had lots of complications and the other two had their cancer return within a few months after HIPEC. One of these was not yet on follow up chemo and I'm not sure about the other.

    My surgery was Jan 20, involved quite a bit of debulking...took out all female organs, omentum, gall bladder, spleen, appendix, part of bladder and part of stomach. The source of the cancer was ovarian. Too, it was on part of the peritoneum. Given my situation, I felt HIPEC was the more hopeful and I could have gone the more conventional route then later, if the cx reocurred, go the HIPEC route. I decided I would never be as strong as I was in Jan because I had not yet had any surgery/chemo to wear me down. So I chose to do the HIPEC.

    So, no I didn't do it for recurrent cx but if you need more info on the HIPEC, I'll be glad to share anything I know or learned during the surgery.

    Good luck to you
    Melanie
  • antcat
    antcat Member Posts: 270
    #3
    MaxRudy said:

    HIPEC
    I had this surgery in Jan 2011 and am currently in the middle of Carbo/Taxol chemo. I was dx in Dec 27, 2010 with a lot of abdominal tumors, some quite large. I came across "HIPEC" on the internet and decided it made a lot of sense for me. IT IS A DIFFICuLT surgery with a lot of potential complications. I also talked to 3 people who had HIPEC for colon cancer. My inference was these 3 people weren't that satisfied with their surgeries....one had lots of complications and the other two had their cancer return within a few months after HIPEC. One of these was not yet on follow up chemo and I'm not sure about the other.

    My surgery was Jan 20, involved quite a bit of debulking...took out all female organs, omentum, gall bladder, spleen, appendix, part of bladder and part of stomach. The source of the cancer was ovarian. Too, it was on part of the peritoneum. Given my situation, I felt HIPEC was the more hopeful and I could have gone the more conventional route then later, if the cx reocurred, go the HIPEC route. I decided I would never be as strong as I was in Jan because I had not yet had any surgery/chemo to wear me down. So I chose to do the HIPEC.

    So, no I didn't do it for recurrent cx but if you need more info on the HIPEC, I'll be glad to share anything I know or learned during the surgery.

    Good luck to you
    Melanie

    HIPEC
    Dear Melanie, thank you for responding. Anything that you can share what you know or learned during the surgery would be most helpful.

    Thanks.
  • MaxRudy
    MaxRudy Member Posts: 56
    #4
    antcat said:

    HIPEC
    Dear Melanie, thank you for responding. Anything that you can share what you know or learned during the surgery would be most helpful.

    Thanks.

    HIPEC
    I responded yesterday but don't see my response anywhere....I readily admit, I'm not too hot on the computer. If u like I can send you a direct email (PM) but your email is not listed in your profile. Mine is....so drop me an email and I'll resend my HIPEC story. I have no idea where the one i wrote yesterday ended up. Sorry.

    melanie
  • lulu1010
    lulu1010 Member Posts: 367
    #5
    MaxRudy said:

    HIPEC
    I responded yesterday but don't see my response anywhere....I readily admit, I'm not too hot on the computer. If u like I can send you a direct email (PM) but your email is not listed in your profile. Mine is....so drop me an email and I'll resend my HIPEC story. I have no idea where the one i wrote yesterday ended up. Sorry.

    melanie

    Hipec
    I did not have HIPEC as I just had robotic surgery for my debulking but the doctor told me we could do it down the road if needed. Of course I am not planning on it but at least I know it is an option. Good luck! Keep us posted!

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