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

    Posted by Apollo Hospitals | 20 Dec,2022

    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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    Posted by:Apollo Hospitals
    20 Dec,2022
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