Trial reportBritish journal of cancer2024
Tumour microenvironment characterisation to stratify patients for hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (OVHIPEC-1).
Trial report in British journal of cancer, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00426257 (Phase III Randomised Clinical Trial for Stage III Ovarian Carcinoma Randomising Between Secondary Debulking Surgery With or Without Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Phase III Randomised Clinical Trial for Stage III Ovarian Carcinoma Randomising Between Secondary Debulking Surgery With or Without Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Comparative efficacy and safety of different treatment strategies for primary advanced ovarian cancer: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized control trials.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Pooled it
- Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in ovarian cancer: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
- Review
- Prognostic Impact of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy After Laparoscopic Gastrectomy in Gastric Cancer with Positive Peritoneal Lavage Cytology and no Other Noncurative Factors.Annals of surgical oncology · 2026Article
- Optimal transport analysis of high-dimensional flow cytometry data in immuno-oncology.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
- Considering homologous recombination deficiency status in HIPEC: could molecular testing someday drive "targeted" surgery?Gynecologic oncology reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundHyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) improves survival in patients with Stage III ovarian cancer following interval cytoreductive surgery (CRS). Optimising patient selection is essential to maximise treatment efficacy and avoid overtreatment. This study aimed to identify biomarkers that predict HIPEC benefit by analysing gene signatures and cellular composition of tumours from participants in the OVHIPEC-1 trial.
methodsWhole-transcriptome RNA sequencing data were retrieved from high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) samples from 147 patients obtained during interval CRS. We performed differential gene expression analysis and applied deconvolution methods to estimate cell-type proportions in bulk mRNA data, validated by histological assessment. We tested the interaction between treatment and potential predictors on progression-free survival using Cox proportional hazards models.
resultsWhile differential gene expression analysis did not yield any predictive biomarkers, the cellular composition, as characterised by deconvolution, indicated that the absence of macrophages and the presence of B cells in the tumour microenvironment are potential predictors of HIPEC benefit. The histological assessment confirmed the predictive value of macrophage absence.
conclusionImmune cell composition, in particular macrophages absence, may predict response to HIPEC in HGSOC and these hypothesis-generating findings warrant further investigation. CLINICAL
trial registrationNCT00426257.
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