Cytoreductive Surgery + HIPEC: What is it?

What is Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) and HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy)?

Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) and HIPEC (Hyperthermic IntraPEritoneal Chemotherapy) is a highly specialised surgical treatment, offered in very few centres in the UK, for cancers or tumours that have originated within the abdomen or tummy and spread within the abdominal cavity onto the peritoneum which is the lining covering the surface of abdominal organs and the abdominal wall.

What is the purpose of CRS + HIPEC?

The purpose of Cytoreductive Surgery and HIPEC is to remove all disease in the abdominal cavity to improve survival rates compared to traditional treatments such as chemotherapy. In some cases there is the potential for cure

Umar Shariff
Consultant Surgeon
General, Colorectal & Peritoneal Surgery
Good Hope Hospital
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, and BMI The Priory and Edgbaston Hospitals.