A medical team at Al-Kafeel Super Speciality Hospital has successfully performed a new operation (HIPEC) for a woman suffering from two tumors in the colon and ovary, while describing the operation as very advanced.
Dr. Ali al-Mayali, a specialist in general surgery at the hospital, said, "We performed the (HIPEC) operation for a patient from Baghdad governorate in the fourth decade of her life, suffering from an ovarian tumor and another in the colon, which is one of the very advanced oncological surgeries performed at Al-Kafeel hospital to provide the means and requirements for them".
He explained that"the patient had previously had an operation to remove the ovarian tumor and underwent chemotherapy, and then the tumor formed again, and a second surgical intervention had to be performed, to completely remove both tumors.
"The surgery took five hours, was successful without any complications, and the woman is in a good and stable health condition."