Deb01432003 re Helen Re: Dr Sugarbaker

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Pat-

I saw your post. I also had surgery with Dr. Sugarbaker last

February.

Before going for this, I did a great deal of reading. Dr. D. Elias

at the Dept of Surgical Oncology, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif,

France was a name came up as frequently as Dr. Sugarbaker, as a

surgeon who has done a great number of these surgeries, and actively

is working to improve the sucess of this surgery/ intraoperative

chemotherapy. In fact he and Dr. Sugarbaker have collaborated on

writing several papers.

Although not without complications, they feel that without the use

chemotherapy, at the same time as near complete resection of all

visible metastatic nodules, all surgical adhesions etc. that there is

very limited chance of eliminating tumor. Dr. Elias's group sound

like they have a great deal of experience using this technique.

Best Wishes,

Kris S

> Im new to this site, Ive read your email re Sugarbaker procedure, &

would be interested in knowing how your husband is responding.My wife

has had 3 op, since May 01, chemo, & radium, but the cancer is still

active in the admoninal wall pelvic areas, the specialists in Dunlin

Ireland are now focusing on operation to cut out as they can, Would

anybody know if this sugarbaker procedureI can be done by others

specialist clinics in Europe.

> Thank you for writing your encouraging email -it is helpful to

others like myself who have just joined & gives hope.You must have

gone through so much anxiety yourself. I hope your husband continues

to recover.

> To Helen Re: Dr Sugarbaker

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>

> Hello Helen,

>

> What I call the " Sugarbaker Procedure " is a very radical

debulking

> surgery with heated chemotherapy put inside the abdomin during

> surgery. The surgery last from 9 to 18 hours, some longer. My

> husband had over 50 tumors in his abdomin with one lision on his

> liver and some in the diaphram. He had a ct scan and pet scan in

> Dec. of 2002 all negative then a ct scan in February which showed

> tumors all over. None of our local surgeons would touch him and

Duke

> Cancer Center also told him to get his affairs in order but Dr.

> Sugarbaker agreed to do the debulking surgery. Dr. Sugarbaker is

> located in Washington D. C. Cancer Institute. He is very

selective

> of his patients, but I recommend him highly.

>

> Deb

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