• Pak J Med Sci · Oct 2024

    Clinical effects of IPCH after the surgery for ovarian cancer at the middle or advanced stage and its impacts on tumor markers and immune functions.

    • Heyue Li, Yan Zhang, Hong Tang, and Linxia Li.
    • Heyue Li, Division of Urological and Reproductive Medicine, Shanghai 7 People's Hospital, Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 200137, China.
    • Pak J Med Sci. 2024 Oct 1; 40 (9): 191919241919-1924.

    ObjectiveTo evaluate the clinical effects of intraperitoneal chemohyperthermia (IPCH) in the treatment of postoperative patients with advanced stage ovarian cancer, and its impacts on tumor markers and immune functions.MethodsThis is a retrospective study. One hundred and twenty patients with advanced stage ovarian cancer received in Shanghai 7th People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine from May 10, 2022 to June 10, 2023 were selected and randomly divided into control and study groups (n=60 each group). Patients in the control group were administered routine intravenous chemotherapy, the study group underwent IPCH besides routine intravenous chemotherapy based on the control group. Comparatively analyzed the clinical effects, adverse reaction occurrence rates, and variations in relevant observation targets, the tumor marker after and before the treatment.ResultsTotal efficacy in the study and control groups are proved to be with statistically significant differences. The occurrence of adverse reactions proved that no significant differences is seen between both groups. After the treatment, CEA, CA19-9, and CA125 levels in patients of the study group are apparently lower than those in the control group, showing statistically significant differences; expression levels of CD3+, CD4+ and CD4+/CD8+, in the study group were enormously above those in the control group after the treatment, with statistically significant differences.ConclusionsIPCH has the potential to effectively enhance comprehensively clinical therapeutic effects among postoperative patients with ovarian cancer, significantly improve patients' immune states, and evidently reduce expression levels of various tumor markers.Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.

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