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Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Gastric Cancer: Promising Survival Signals but Very Low‑Certainty Evidence

MedXY Editorial TeamDec 16, 2025
Gastric CancerHIPECintraperitoneal chemotherapyperitoneal metastasis

Highlights

– A 2025 Cochrane review including nine randomized trials (829 participants) evaluated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC) for both prophylaxis and treatment of peritoneal disease in gastric cancer.

– IPC (mostly hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, HIPEC) showed an apparent survival benefit (prophylactic HR 0.66; therapeutic HR 0.52), but certainty is very low because of risk of bias, indirectness, and imprecision.

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