Peritoneal cancer is not the same as intestinal or stomach cancer. And it shouldn't be confused with cancers that spread (metastasize) to the peritoneum. Peritoneal cancer startsin the peritoneum. So, ...

High-Dose Chemotherapy and Autologous Peripheral-Blood Stem-Cell Transplantation for Relapsed Metastatic Germ Cell Tumors: The Indiana University Experience Eligibility criteria for patients from our ...

Peritoneal cancer is a rare cancer that forms in the thin layer of epithelial cells that line the inside wall of the abdomen. This lining is called the peritoneum. The peritoneum protects and covers ...

Peritonitis is a condition of the peritoneum that typically occurs following a bacterial infection. The perioneum is the moist tissue around the inside of the stomach wall. Peritonitis is a serious ...

PPC is a type of cancer that starts in the peritoneal cavity in the abdomen, rather than cancer that has developed elsewhere in the body and spread to the peritoneum. Cancer that has started elsewhere ...

Gastric cancer remains a formidable adversary, ranking as the fifth most common cancer and the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with over 1,000,000 new cases and close to ...

Peritonitis is inflammation of the tissue that covers your inner abdominal wall and the organs in your abdomen. Peritonitis is inflammation of the peritoneum, the thin layer of tissue covering the ...

Gender disparities in the National Institutes of Health funding for gastrointestinal oncology. Evaluating novel therapies and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) as a marker of response in curatively ...

Static ultrasound guidance is used to select and mark the site of needle insertion immediately before the procedure takes place. Dynamic ultrasound guidance, in contrast, is used to directly visualize ...