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 cancers may be primary or secondary. Symptoms and signs of the cancer are vague and the diagnosis is usually late with poor treatment outcome. Peritoneal cancers may be primary when they ...

Microarray ANALYSIS of t(11;18)(Q21;Q21)-positive and -negative gastrointestinal MALT lymphomas. Background: Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare disease and prognosis is poor. The ...

New study and promising results from the first clinical trial in patients provide novel insights and new hope for one of the deadliest of cancers. Gastric cancer remains a formidable adversary, ...

Cancers originating from organs in the peritoneal cavity (e.g., ovarian, pancreatic, colorectal, gastric and liver) account for approximately 250,000 new cancer cases annually in the USA. Peritoneal ...

Malignant mesotheliomas are common in people exposed to asbestos for a long time. Other risk factors include exposure to a metal called eronite, radiotherapy, infection with simian virus 40 and ...