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 ...

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 ...

Understand how the rare relative of ovarian cancer is diagnosed and treated. Joanne Wilson was feeling less like herself — she was always tired, sometimes struggling just to get up in the morning, and ...

CRS-HIPEC stands for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. It’s pronounced “high-peck.” This treatment is for people with cancer that has spread to the lining of the ...

Peritoneal carcinomatosis is an advanced form of cancer resulting from the regional spread of gastrointestinal, gynaecological and other malignancies. It is associated with short survival and poor ...

Gastric cancer remains a formidable adversary, ranking as the fifth most common cancer and the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with over 1,000,000 new cases and close to ...

UNDATED HealthFirst reporter Leslie Toldo shows us how a group of surgeons is giving terminal patients the will to live. Most patients whose cancer spreads through the stomach are given less than a ...

With warmer weather soon to arrive, home improvement projects may be on many "to do" lists. With that come the usual warnings about safe removal of construction and home materials made of asbestos in ...

Pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) is a rare, chronic, and often misdiagnosed disease defined by the dispersed mucinous ascites and tissue lining the peritoneal cavity, and generally initiate from appendix ...

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 ...