The mother of all surgeries is HIPEC surgery also called cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy and it's a complex and extensive surgical procedure.
The HIPEC surgery is often performed to treat advanced stages of peritoneal cancer.
Peritoneal cancer is cancer which has spread to the lining of your abdominal cavity.
HIPEC surgery involves removing of all visible cancerous tissue from the abdomen, washing the abdominal cavity with heated chemotherapy drugs and sometimes removing of affected organs like the uterus, ovaries, appendix or gallbladder.
HIPEC surgery is major surgery because of it's complexity as well as the extensive tissue removal that is involved.
HIPEC surgery is referred to as the mother of all surgeries because of it's challenging nature and the significant recovery process which follows.
People have survived "the mother of all surgeries," which is also known as cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), a complex procedure used to treat cancers that have spread to the abdominal cavity.
One example of a person who survived the mother of all surgeries is Faye Louise, who had 8 organs removed during the surgery and is now cancer-free and back to work.
Another patient, Beth Henderson, also survived the mother of all surgeries and is cancer-free 14 years later.