New approach to peritoneal surface malignancies

作者：Macri Antonio^*

来源：World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology, 2010, 2(1): 9-11.

DOI：10.4251/wjgo.v2.i1.9

• Peritoneal surface malignancy
• Peritoneal carcinomatosis
• Pseudomyxoma peritonei
• Peritoneal mesothelioma
• Gastric cancer
• Colorectal cancer
• Ovarian cancer
• Cytoreductive surgery
• Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
• HIPEC

Peritoneal surface malignancies (PSM) are a clinical entity with an unfavourable prognosis. They comprise peritoneal carcinomatosis, pseudomyxoma peritonei, and primitive tumors of the peritoneum. Because the treatment of PSM presents unique and challenging problems to the cancer clinician, many new approaches have been attempted in recent years. In the current and next issues of World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology, some international groups of researchers discuss the most important and innovative aspects of PSM treatment, with particular accuracy for cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. In conclusion, because this new approach to PSM has a reputation for being based more on common sense than on experimental data, I hope that highlighting this topic can make a contribution to the treatment of this group of diseases.

• 出版日期2010-1-15