Renji Hospital Uses Precision Heat Treatment to Kill Cancer Cells and Tackle Peritoneal Metastasis
Recently, due to a large amount of ascites, Aunt Wang had difficulty moving when she came to the hospital, her abdominal distension was unbearable, and she could only rely on a wheelchair. The "culprit" hidden behind the disease is bile duct tumors. Cancer cells have spread widely in the abdominal cavity and metastasized, causing the omentum to change like an "omental cake". How to overcome this medical problem? Biliary and pancreatic surgery experts from the Cancer Center of Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine found a way to help Aunt Wang bid farewell to this clinically difficult and difficult cancer through surgery and intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion chemotherapy technology.
In the field of abdominal malignant tumors, peritoneal metastasis is the most common, most frequent, and most serious complication. It is usually considered to be a manifestation of the terminal stage of tumors. Patients are often accompanied by uncontrollable cancerous ascites and abdominal distension and pain, which has always left clinicians at a loss.
Faced with this severe condition, Professor Liu Yingbin, director of the Department of Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Renji Hospital, challenged traditional treatment and decided to try a new treatment plan. He organized MDT (multidisciplinary) experts at the cancer center to customize a personalized optimal intraperitoneal chemotherapy perfusion solution prescription for Aunt Wang to accurately "scald" the abdominal tumors.
The latest BR-TRG body cavity thermal perfusion therapy system is a new tumor treatment system that heats large-volume perfusion fluid or perfusion fluid containing chemotherapy drugs to a certain temperature, and continuously circulates and infuses it into the patient's body cavity (chest, abdominal and pelvic cavity, bladder) at a constant temperature, and maintains it for a certain period of time. Through the synergistic sensitization and mechanical flushing effect of thermal chemotherapy, it accurately "scalds" tumor cells to kill and remove residual cancer cells and microscopic lesions in the body cavity. Abdominal tumors were wiped out in the face of the "hot" precise chemotherapy solution.
Under the guidance of Professor Liu Yingbin, Yang Linhua, chief physician of the Department of Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery, and Yang Chao, the attending physician, successfully placed a drainage tube for warm chemotherapy on Aunt Wang. Then, they connected the drainage tube to the latest BR-TRG thermal cycling instrument outside the body.
The entire operation went smoothly, and Aunt Wang's large amount of ascites had basically disappeared. After the operation, Aunt Wang's abdominal distension and diet improved significantly, and she was basically able to take care of herself.
From the cold where the treatment was ineffective to the warm now! This is the first precise intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion chemotherapy for tumors carried out by Renji Hospital. It not only demonstrates that the Cancer Center of Renji Hospital has another powerful therapeutic weapon in the field of comprehensive tumor treatment, but also reflects the hospital's emphasis on the innovation of comprehensive tumor treatment technology and its emphasis on tumor patients.