Dynamic assessment of intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy under pressure impact on peritoneal carcinomatosis in ovarian cancer (immediate results)

Purpose of the study. Dynamic assessment of the direct impact of pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) on peritoneal carcinomatosis in ovarian cancer.

Patients and methods. The study involved 164 people with visually detectable and morphologically verified ovarian cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis of the peritoneum (IIIb-IIIc stages of ovarian cancer). All patients underwent combined treatment of ovarian cancer, which included primary cytoreduction and 6 courses of сhemotherapy according to the TC scheme. In the main group, the standard treatment was supplemented with 3 sessions of PIPAC. Statistical processing was carried out by analyzing the exact criterion of the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney sums, the distribution of patients in groups by age and peritoneal lesion was estimated. It was found that the distribution of the analyzed parameters was random. The distribution in the groups by stages of the disease was homogeneous, which is justified by the use of the Barnard criterion. The dynamics of the parameters of the study was evaluated by the methods of basic statistics. Used software packages: MedCals, Statistica.

Results. The results obtained demonstrate a distinct positive dynamics in the group of patients receiving PIPAC in addition to standard treatment of newly diagnosed ovarian cancer: a significant decrease in the peritoneal cancer index, therapeutic pathomorphosis in peritoneal samples during treatment, reduction of ascites.

Conclusion. The team of authors managed to establish that PIPAC simultaneously with standard combined treatment for newly diagnosed ovarian cancer with peritoneal carcinomatosis makes it possible to achieve a dynamic regression effect of peritoneal carcinomatosis of the peritoneum, morphological regression of carcinomatosis and complete resorption of ascites in the vast majority of treated patients. The revealed therapeutic effect was prolonged and persistent with an objective assessment 6 months after the end of treatment.

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