“Most people think carcinomatosis is a death sentence, but there are different treatment modalities that I offer to patients. And that’s something that is pretty unique to UT Health San Antonio,” Kitano said.<\/p>\n
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The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio<\/p>\n
Mio Kitano, MD, is an associate professor at the Department of Surgery and a surgical oncologist at the Mays Cancer Center at UT San Antonio Health Science Center.<\/p>\n
One of them is Cytoreductive surgery, which she calls the big surgery. It targets cancer on the surface of the abdominal organs.<\/p>\n
“We strip the peritoneal lining that has all the deposits of the tumors and it’s almost like peeling the wallpaper off of the wall,” Kitano said.<\/p>\n
Then they remove any dispensable organs that have tumor deposits, like the spleen and parts of the small and large bowel. Then, there’s hot chemotherapy.<\/p>\n
“So the whole idea is to remove everything. But then anything that I cannot remove \u2014 any microscopic cells that can be left behind \u2014 is that the heated chemo, sterilizes or takes care of those microscopic cells,” she said. “So it is a pretty dramatic surgery.<\/p>\n
Science & Medicine is a collaboration between TPR and The UT San Antonio Health Science Center that explores how scientific discovery in San Antonio advances the way medicine is practiced everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This program originally aired on May 28, 2024. Getting a diagnosis of a gastrointestinal cancer like stomach, colon,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-281264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115326171522998650","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}