Understand how the rare relative of ovarian cancer is diagnosed and treated. Joanne Wilson was feeling less like herself — she was always tired, sometimes struggling just to get up in the morning, and ...

The prognosis of peritoneal spread from gastrointestinal cancer and subsequent malignant ascites is poor, and current medical treatments available are mostly ineffective. Targeted chemotherapy with ...

Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provides an important treatment option that can improve survival for some patients with advanced peritoneal cancer. Managing this disease — and ...

When my silent assassin emerged last autumn, I pressed my surgeon about the prognosis for a form of peritoneal cancer that strikes women in stealthy fashion. “Do you really want to know?” he replied. ...

The current study was performed with information of the population based cancer registry of the Swiss canton of Geneva (approximately 420 000 inhabitants). The registry records information on all ...

Veteran actress Nafisa Ali Sodhi is courageously undergoing chemotherapy for a recurrence of stage 4 peritoneal cancer, after an initial misdiagnosis delayed treatment. She inspires many by openly ...

There is not just one but over a hundred types of cancer. We only know a few of them which are commonly diagnosed but there are a lot of rare cancers that common people haven’t heard of. Peritoneal ...

Cancer is a disease that occurs when abnormal cells divide in an uncontrolled way, sometimes spreading into other tissues. Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT Symptoms of the disease will depend on ...

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 ...

The presence of serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma (STIC) at the time of risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO) significantly increased the risk of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) in BRCA1/2 ...

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, ...