Cytoreductive surgery
Conventional medicine
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. The ultimate goal of CRS is to achieve the complete gross resection (CGR) in other words to remove all visible disease from the abdominal cavity. It is often used to treat ovarian cancer but can also be used for other abdominal malignancies.