Since patients with peritoneal metastases often also have distant metastases in systemic organs, intravenous therapy is usually the standard of care. Multiple clinical studies have shown that adding ...
Peritoneal dissemination is the most common mode of metastasis in gastric cancer. We previously reported the importance of milky spots (MS), peritoneal lymphoid tissues, as selective sites of cancer ...
EUDARIO/ENGOTov-48: A European multicenter randomised phase II trial on the combination of the HSP90 inhibitor ganetespib with carboplatin followed by maintenance treatment with niraparib (+/- ...
HIPEC surgery is a promising treatment option for patients with certain abdominal cancers. Surgical oncologist Erin Ward, MD, discusses which patients would be best candidates for HIPEC, explains why ...
Hemoperitoneum, sometimes also called intra-abdominal hemorrhage or intraperitoneal hemorrhage, is a type of internal bleeding in which blood gathers in your peritoneal cavity. This is the space ...
PPC is a type of cancer that starts in the peritoneal cavity in the abdomen, rather than cancer that has developed elsewhere in the body and spread to the peritoneum. Cancer that has started elsewhere ...
Drug delivery systems can alter drug clearance from the peritoneal cavity and drug toxicity profiles. For example, IP injection of cisplatin-loaded polymeric microspheres (100–200 µm, which releases ...