@marymichaels I am so glad to hear that! That’s such great news, especially after all the treatment you have done. I hope you are celebrating!

We would love to do HIPEC in a clinical trial setting, but we live pretty far from Mayo. My mom‘s surgeon does a lot of HIPEC and is very up on current research that shows good outcomes in limited volume peritoneal metastasis, so he think she would be a good candidate. He also says tumor biology has a huge impact on the success rates and she has had very indolent tumor behavior so far, which he says usually leads to more favorable outcomes with HIPEC. She was initially diagnosed six years ago and had pancreatectomy at that time and adjuvant chemo, than an ovarian recurrence in 2024, which was removed and more chemo, has been off treatment for over a year and just now found one peritoneal nodule on PET scan. So, that is what has brought us to this point. She feels great, is a very fit and active 70-year-old and would like to do whatever is going to beat this back again for as long as possible.

I was reading about the mayo trial and it looks like clinical trial participants can have multiple rounds of HIPEC if needed? Is the plan just to do routine scans and repeat HIPEC if anything else would show up? Praying it never does for you!