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Gastric cancer (gc) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. The majority of newly diagnosed gastric cancer cases present with distant metastases. Peritoneal carcinomatosis (pc) is the most unfavorable type of progression of primary gc, which occurs ...
V. A. Markovich +10 more
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Peritoneal carcinomatosis is the most frequent site of metastases in patients with gastric cancer. Current standard treatment is palliative systemic chemotherapy with very poor prognosis.
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Initial Experience With Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy [PDF]
Until 2004, we treated peritoneal carcinomatosis with cytoreductive surgery accompanied by perioperative systemic chemotherapy. From October 2004, we decided to initiate a hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) program for this condition.To determine the effect of HIPEC on postoperative outcomes at a single institution performing a high ...
Olivier, Turrini +6 more
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Primary ovarian high-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma: a case report
Background Primary ovarian high-grade endometrial stromal sarcoma is a very rare disease. Even though it has poor prognosis, the gold standard treatment has not been established owing to its rarity.
Ji Sun Lee +5 more
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Background Hepatopancreaticobiliary malignancies with peritoneal carcinomatosis exhibit poor survival with current therapies: hepatocellular carcinoma 11 months with sorafenib, and pancreaticobiliary 9–14 months with systemic chemotherapy.
Natasha Leigh +6 more
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Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) [PDF]
Hemmer PHJ, Van Leeuwen BL. Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). Huisarts Wet 2013;56(1):36-9.Surgery forms the basis of cancer therapy, and surgical resection sometimes improves survival in metastatic disease. One such surgical approach is
Van Leeuwen, Barbara +2 more
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Despite extensive treatment with surgery and chemotherapy many patients with peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer experience intraperitoneal disease relapse. The α-emitting 224 radium-labelled microparticle radionuclide therapeutic Radspherin® is
Ebbe Billmann Thorgersen MD, PhD +6 more
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Role of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy in ovarian cancer [PDF]
Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), has the highest worldwide mortality of all gynecological tumors, in 75% of cases is diagnosed in advanced stages. Despite of treatments with maximal cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and platinum-based chemotherapy (CT), approximately 70% of patients with advancedstage disease relapse within 18 months, given this high number ...
Juan Manuel, Medina-Castro +1 more
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Two surgical techniques used for peritoneal metastasis involve a risk of exposure to antineoplastic drugs (ADs): hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) and pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC).
Benoist Hubert +8 more
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Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy has emerged as an aggressive treatment option with intent to either cure or extend disease-free survival of selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis.
Luiza Damian Ribeiro Barbosa +2 more
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