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The incision is large. Sometimes surgeons start with a small laproscopic entry to see what is happening in the abdomen before proceeding with the larger incision.
Once inside the body, the surgeon removes any visible tumors (“debulking surgery”).
Next, the patient is connected to a series of catheters and a pumping device that bathes the entire abdominal cavity with the chemotherapy drugs. The circulatory part of the process takes from 90-to a maximum of 120 minutes.
The entire process can last for eight hours or more.
The patient is generally hospitalized for 7 – 10 days.
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