• 1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery & Laboratory of Gastric Cancer, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery & Laboratory of Digestive Surgery, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
HU Jiankun, Email: hujkwch@126.com
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Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has been used in clinical setting, and is one of the optional treatment for peritoneal surface tumors. It can be used as adjuvant therapy to prevent peritoneal recurrence after gastric or colorectal cancer resection, or to treat those diseases with peritoneal metastasis alone through cytoreductive surgery +HIPEC or HIPEC alone, based on a multidisciplinary model. The updates of European HIPEC-related clinical trials, GASTRIPEC, GASTRICHIP, PRODIGE 7, PROPHYLOCHIP, COLOPEC, COMBATAC, were reported at the 11th International Workshop on Peritoneal Surface Malignancy. In those trials, there was no definitive result surporting that HIPEC treatment might bring survival benefits to patients with gastric or colorectal cancer. However, long-term follow-up results remain to be seen, and some studies are still recruiting. Although several studies were designed as phase Ⅲ trials, the overall sample size was small-scaled. In addition, in the trials, diagnostic laparoscopy were widely used in gastric or colorectal cancer patients, which was helpful to improve staging accuracy and optimizing treatment strategies. The indications for HIPEC therapy (peritoneal cancer index) and technical issues (duration, temperature, approach, and agents) need further investigate.

Citation: CHEN Xinzu, ZHOU Zongguang, HU Jiankun. Updates of European clinical trials in hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy for gastric and colorectal cancers. West China Medical Journal, 2018, 33(12): 1460-1465. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.201812082 Copy

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