Other new surgical procedures include the HIPEC surgery. HIPEC or Heated Intraoperative lntraperitoneal Chemotherapy is a new venture in treatment of the ovarian cancer patient.According to Bijelic, et al., cytoreductive surgery combined with lntraperitoneal Chemotherapy is a comprehensive treatment modality directed at the whole abdomen and pelvis that has shown efficacy in the treatment of malignancies with peritoneal dissemination. This new delivery method of Chemotherapy can increase the time between primary disease and recurrent disease from 22 to 54 month and the median disease-free survival from 10-26 months.( Annais of Oncology, May, 2007. )