Hyderabad doctors give new lease of life to patient with rare cancer

HYDERABAD: Doctors of Durgabai Deshmukh Renova Cancer Centre achieved a significant milestone by successfully performing the first-ever Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) surgery in the city.

The complex procedure was performed on a 52-year-old woman, Nayini Lalitha, from Mudigonda village in Khammam district, who suffered from Pseudomyxoma Peritonei, a rare form of cancer of the abdomen and pelvis affecting only one in a million individuals.

Lalitha had been experiencing abdominal distension, breathlessness, loss of appetite, and weight loss for the past four months. Dr U Azad Chandrashekhar, Medical Director and Senior Surgical Oncologist, took on the case.