The diagnosis and treatment planning for newly diagnosed ovarian adenocarcinomas are
unique among solid cancers. Ovarian cancer is insidious in presentation with few sentinel …

Several gastrointestinal and gynecological malignancies have the potential to disseminate
and grow in the peritoneal cavity. The occurrence of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) has …

Epithelial ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancer in the
United States, with less than half of patients living> 5 years from diagnosis. A major …

Importance Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has been used within
various multimodality strategies for the prevention and treatment of gastric cancer peritoneal …

Background Ovarian cancer tends to be chemosensitive and confine itself to the surface of
the peritoneal cavity for much of its natural history. These features have made it an obvious …

Peritoneal spread of tumors is a major problem in cancer management. Patients develop a
marked deterioration in quality of life and shortened survival. This is in part due to bowel …

Over the past 40years, the survival of patients with advanced ovarian cancer has greatly
improved due to the introduction of combination chemotherapy with platinum and paclitaxel …

Background Pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a new treatment
that applies chemotherapeutic drugs into the peritoneal cavity as an aerosol under pressure …

Objective Our objective was to review the published experiences of the use of hyperthermic
intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) in the treatment of advanced and recurrent ovarian …

The management and the outcome of peritoneal metastases or recurrence from epithelial
ovarian cancer are presented. The biology and the diagnostic tools of EOC peritoneal …