While cancer treatment advances are being made in the areas of precision medicine and immunotherapy, a unique combination of traditional therapies can also provide some cancer patients a treatment ...

The sexagenarian was initially taken to another hospital where she was misdiagnosed as a case of chronic liver failure with ascites. When she came to Manipal Hospital Dhakuria, she had trouble ...

CRS-HIPEC stands for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. It’s pronounced “high-peck.” This treatment is for people with cancer that has spread to the lining of the ...

Patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) who have peritoneal metastases should only be treated in a specialized referral center and given systemic chemotherapy before cytoreductive surgery with ...

Patients with stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC) had lower overall and disease-free survival if they had a pelvic exenteration (PE) or cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy ...

Cytoreductive surgery/hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS/HIPEC) programs are often limited to centers in developed countries because of extensive requirements. We aimed to analyze efficacy ...

Almost one-third of patients undergoing omentectomy for peritoneal metastases had occult omental metastases, supporting routine omentectomy prior to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic ...

Intraperitoneal and intravenous paclitaxel plus S-1 versus intravenous paclitaxel plus S-1 in gastric cancer patients with peritoneal metastasis: Results from the multicenter, randomized, phase 3 ...

KOLKATA, India, July 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In a landmark achievement, a 60-year-old woman with advanced primary peritoneal carcinomatosis was successfully treated with Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) ...