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 ...

The study covered in this summary was published on researchsquare.com as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Surgery and postoperative chemotherapy are standard of care for advanced gastric ...

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 (+/- ...

Heating chemotherapy and administering it into the abdominal cavity allows children with desmoplastic small round cell tumors to be treated with minimal side effects. Hyperthermic intraperitoneal ...

The peritoneal cavity is the major site of disease in ovarian cancer. The peritoneal predominance of disease provides a rationale for administration of chemotherapy within the peritoneal cavity.

Explore the benefits of peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a home-based treatment for kidney failure, offering flexibility and comparable outcomes to hemodialysis. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

DETROIT — A 60-year-old man from the Cadillac area has become the first patient in Michigan to receive a state-of-the-art aerosolized cancer treatment, performed by Henry Ford Health surgical ...

Peritoneal cancer is difficult to treat and has a poor survival prognosis. But a new and effective nanomedicine delivery system is offering some hope. The company is called NaDeNo and is well underway ...

Mayo Clinic researchers used a new approach to chemotherapy to more than double the typical survival rate for patients with stomach cancer and peritoneal metastasis, which is cancer that has spread to ...

Sponsored FOY Cancer Patients Benefit from HIPEC Procedure For patients with complex cancer cases that spread in the abdominal or chest cavity, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is a leader in a ...