Abstract

Ovarian cancer is an “intraperitoneal disease” by itself. When first standard treatment fails, usually, the disease is characterized by poor prognosis. Encouraging results have been reported by the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) from epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) by complete surgical cytoreduction, peritonectomy and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). The purpose of this study is to evaluate survival benefit and morbidity of patients with recurrent EOC treated by cytoreductive surgery and HIPEC.

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