Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: Current Treatment and Future Options
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2024) | Viewed by 10647
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Interests: bariatric surgery; peritoneal carcinomatosis; gastric cancer; colorectal cancer; abdominal surgery
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2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP), Porto, Portugal
3. Obesity Clinic, Casa de Saúde da Boavista (CSB), Porto, Portugal
Interests: obesity; metabolic and bariatric surgery, metabolic syndrome, minimally invasive surgery; clinical and translational research
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Dear Colleagues,
In the past, peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) was considered a terminal disease only approached with palliative care and, despite the advent of new chemotherapies, with noticeable improvements in the survival of patients with metastatic cancers from multiple origins, PC still remains a devastating disease. With a reduced response to systemic chemotherapy compared to other metastatic sites, there is a progressively growing interest in the surgical approach to PC with CRS-HIPEC, and more recently, PIPAC, an alternative method to intra-peritoneal drug delivery with improved distribution and tissue uptake and better tolerance.
Patient selection, preoperative optimization, and postoperative care are of paramount importance, as much as the primary disease and treatment performed.
We aim to provide insight into the approach to peritoneal carcinomatosis, with emphasis on the new developments of multimodality treatment and surgical options, fast postoperative recovery programs, preoperative prognostic factors, and other data, aiming to improve the outcome of patients with PC.
Dr. Jorge Pedro Martins Nogueiro
Dr. Hugo Santos-Sousa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- peritoneal neoplasms
- hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
- pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy
- preoperative care
- postoperative care
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