Asia’s first Radical Pleurectomy with HITHOC was successfully performed on an adolescent with Ewing’s Sarcoma at Apollo Proton Cancer Centre.

Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC)has successfully performed Asia’s first Radical pleurectomy with HITHOC (Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy) on a 16-year-old adolescent from Kerala.

In early 2020, 16-year-old adolescent was detected to have Ewing’s Sarcoma of the left intra thoracic cavity for which the patient underwent neo-adjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery and radiation with maintenance chemotherapy. Post treatment when the recurrence of the cancer was deducted within 6 months, the patient approached APCC, Chennai for further treatment. The team of clinicians examined the case and conducted tests to chart out the multi-step surgery and treatments for the unique case.

The treatment performed by Dr Khader Hussain, Consultant, Surgical Oncologist (Thoracic) & Robotic Surgeon and Dr Abhijit Das, Consultant, Surgical Oncologist (Thoracic) & Robotic Surgeon, consisted of Radical pleurectomy, pericardiectomy, wedge resection of left lung, en-bloc resection of the intrathoracic mass followed by HITHOC (Hyperthermic intrathoracic chemotherapy). This treatment of radical surgery with HITHOC is a first-of-its-kind in Asia for an adolescent.

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