The Dutch trial that put heated chemotherapy into the abdomen after stripping out all visible tumour, and nearly doubled median survival from 12.6 to 22.3 months. Eight percent of patients died of the treatment.
Verwaal, van Ruth, de Bree and colleagues randomly assigned 105 patients between February 1998 and August 2001 to standard treatment (systemic fluorouracil-leucovorin with or without palliative surgery) or to aggressive cytoreduction with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy followed by the same systemic regimen. The primary end point was survival.
Subgroup analysis showed that patients with fewer regions of the abdominal cavity involved, and those in whom cytoreduction was macroscopically complete, did far better, which is the selection principle every peritoneal service has used since.
The trial that created peritoneal surface malignancy as a speciality, and the reason patients with limited peritoneal disease are referred to designated centres; PRODIGE 7 later showed the benefit belongs to the surgery, not to the heated chemotherapy.
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