Paul Hendrick Sugarbaker (born November 28, 1941, in

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) is an American

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at the Washington Cancer Institute. He is known for developments in

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of the

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, including cytoreductive surgery followed by hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, or HIPEC, a treatment alternately referred to as the Sugarbaker Procedure. Sugarbaker is the elder brother of the surgeon

David Sugarbaker David John Sugarbaker (August 5, 1953 – August 29, 2018) was an American physician who was chief of the division of general thoracic surgery and the director of the Baylor College of Medicine Lung Institute at CHI St. Luke's Health–Baylor St ...

. Sugarbaker attended high school in

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and received a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in

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in 1963. In 1967 he graduated from the medical college at

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. He interned and did his residency at

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, serving as chief resident from 1973 to 1976. From 1976 to 1986, he spent ten years at the National Cancer Institute–Surgery Branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, as Senior Investigator. He was also head of surgical oncology at Emory University Medical School, and the medical director of surgical oncology at the Washington Cancer Institute at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Ovarian cancer

Among patients with stage III

epithelial ovarian cancer Surface epithelial-stromal tumors are a class of ovarian neoplasms that may be benign or malignant. Neoplasms in this group are thought to be derived from the ovarian surface epithelium (modified peritoneum) or from :wikt:ectopic, ectopic endometri ...

, the addition of HIPEC to interval

cytoreductive surgery Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) is a surgical procedure that aims to reduce the amount of cancer cells in the abdominal cavity for patients with tumors that have spread intraabdominally ( peritoneal carcinomatosis). It is often used to treat ovarian c ...

resulted in longer recurrence-free survival and

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than surgery alone and did not result in higher rates of

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References

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