Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), has the highest worldwide mortality of all gynecological tumors, in 75% of cases is diagnosed in advanced stages. Despite of treatments with maximal cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and platinum-based chemotherapy (CT), approximately 70% of patients with advancedstage disease relapse within 18 months, given this high number of recurrences, new approaches are needed to improve outcomes for these patients. Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has fundamentally changed the treatment of patients with ovarian cancer, with complete CRS and locoregional administration of chemotherapy. The purpose of this review is to find the most relevant, reliable published evidence of the use of HIPEC in ovarian cancer, together with an overview of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC), procedures, therapeutic approaches in first-line and recurrent disease, the benefit of hyperthermia, selection of the ideal patient for the HIPEC procedures as well to analyze the disease free survival (DFS), morbidity, mortality and overall survival (OS) in patients with ovary cancer. So far, the small amount of evidence points favorably to the use of CRS and HIPEC as a first line of therapy, but more prospective randomized trials are needed to officially adopt this procedure as a standard of care, additionally patients need to know this option exists.
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