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SUBMITTER: Van der Speeten K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405035 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Van der Speeten Kurt K Lemoine Lieselotte L Sugarbaker Paul P
Pleura and peritoneum 20170407 2
Peritoneal surface malignancy (PSM) is a common manifestation of digestive and gynecologic malignancies alike. At present, patients with isolated PSM are treated with a combination therapy of cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). The combination of CRS and intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy should now be considered standard of care for PSM from appendiceal epithelial cancers, colorectal cancer and peritoneal mesothelioma. Although there is a near unive ...[more]