Roughly one in five patients with colorectal cancer develops peritoneal minimal residual
disease after surgical resection, and about one in seven patients develops peritoneal …

Natural history studies have shown that peritoneal carcinomatosis is uniformly fatal, with a
median survival in the range of approximately 6 months. For more than a decade, a handful …

Peritoneal carcinomatosis, the infiltration of the visceral and parietal peritoneum with tumor,
most commonly represents an advanced form of intra-abdominal and pelvic malignancies …

Background: The standard treatment for osteosarcoma comprises complete surgical
resection and neoadjuvant chemotherapy, which may cause serious side effects and partial …

PURPOSE: Tumor cells exfoliated into the peritoneal cavity during colorectal cancer surgery
are viable and tumorigenic and may contribute to peritoneal recurrence. Although commonly …

Povidone-iodine solution (Betadine (R)) has long been accepted as an effective topical
broad spectrum antiseptic, disinfectant, and tumoricidal agent. In colorectal operations, this …

Background Spontaneous tumor rupture is a distinctive disease pattern in patients with
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The application of hyperthermic intraperitoneal …

Background Although often proposed as a means to reduce the harmful consequences of
tumor spill, water lavage has yet to be systematically evaluated in relevant in vitro and in …

Résumé Dans les cancers du haut rectum, l'exérèse du mésorectum se fait de façon
extrafasciale, toujours en dehors du fascia recti, et la section se fait 5 cm sous le pôle …

Unfortunately, advanced colorectal cancer is often present at the time the disease is
diagnosed. Many intra-abdominal malignancies spread throughout the peritoneal cavity …