Professor, Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Review Article
Molecular Linking of HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy) and Tregs (Regulatory T- cells) in Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer - A Review
Author(s): Ray MD*, Deo SVS, Luthra K, Mathur S, Anand P and Sharma A
The mainstay in the management of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer is platinum-based chemotherapy and complete cytoreductive surgery.
Despite this, about two-thirds of patients have disease recurrence mostly within the peritoneal cavity. HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal
Chemotherapy) is a modality that delivers cell-cycle non-specific chemotherapeutic agents along with heat 41°C to 43°C into the peritoneal cavity.
HIPEC is done intra-operatively after achieving complete cytoreduction (which means after removal of all the tumor deposits more than 2.5 mm).
Ovarian cancer is associated with the frequent finding of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes in their tissue microenvironment. Especially studies have
shown that ovarian cancer evades immune surveillance by higher expression of FOXP3 T cells. HIPEC has been used in the treatment of primary
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DOI:
10.37421/1747-0862.2021.15.471
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