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How many centres in the UK are currently doing HIPEC surgery?
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How many centres in the UK are currently doing HIPEC surgery?

Mr Murphy talks about how HIPEC is becoming more common in the UK.

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You say HIPEC has become more of a routine operation. How many centers in for instance the UK would be doing HIPEC now? At the present time there are six centers in the UK performing this procedure so it's still limited in a sense that it's not performed routinely in all hospitals but it is becoming more common across the country. Is that because you need a specialist sort of support system to deal with the issues around the operation? It's mainly because the type of surgery is entirely different to all other routine forms of surgery, it requires a specialist set of skills and those are only available at the present time within those centres and yes there is some requirement for specialists to support the teams.

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