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Bronchoscopy with electromagnetic navigation at Hospital São João, Porto
87 sessions in 33 users at São João Hospital. A “new hope” for cancer patients, increasing survival and relieving symptoms.
A Pipac It is a technique of chemotherapy mainly used in cancer disease in peritoneumthe membrane that covers the abdominal cavity.
An aerosol is applied, performed in a operative block and guided by a chamber, for a more homogeneous and concentrated distribution of chemotherapy drug through a minimally invasive surgical procedure.
As drug administration is directed, treatment maintains low plasma concentration, minimizing the side effects and toxicity of chemotherapy.
Allow Improve the quality of life of patients and, in selected cases, patients can resort to curative surgery.
The first Portuguese public hospital to opt for this road was the São João Hospital in Porto, which applied treatment in 2022.
In these three years, this innovative technique has already been implemented in 87 sessions, in 33 patientsallowing them to improve the quality of life, read in a statement sent to ZAP.
The results show improvements in disease control and also show lower side effects.
Elisabete Barbosa, clinical director of hospital health care, describes this treatment: “A palliative perspective, allowing the Symptom relief of peritoneal cancer ”.
“May allow advancement for cyorreduction surgerya complex and comprehensive surgical procedure performed with the objective of removing all areas affected by the disease with a healing purpose, ”explains the expert.
Elisabete Barbosa sums up: “This is a new hope in the treatment of metastatic disease and in the perspective of increasing survival and in the relief of symptoms.”
