Female Swiss/nude 4-week-old mice were obtained from Charles-River Laboratories (L'Abresles, France) and maintained in a pathogen-free environment. Each of the 6–8-week-old animals was implanted ...

Peritoneal dissemination is the most common mode of metastasis in gastric cancer. We previously reported the importance of milky spots (MS), peritoneal lymphoid tissues, as selective sites of cancer ...

Drug delivery systems can alter drug clearance from the peritoneal cavity and drug toxicity profiles. For example, IP injection of cisplatin-loaded polymeric microspheres (100–200 µm, which releases ...

Hemoperitoneum, sometimes also called intra-abdominal hemorrhage or intraperitoneal hemorrhage, is a type of internal bleeding in which blood gathers in your peritoneal cavity. This is the space ...

EUDARIO/ENGOTov-48: A European multicenter randomised phase II trial on the combination of the HSP90 inhibitor ganetespib with carboplatin followed by maintenance treatment with niraparib (+/- ...

Malignant mesotheliomas are common in people exposed to asbestos for a long time. Other risk factors include exposure to a metal called eronite, radiotherapy, infection with simian virus 40 and ...

Nagpur: An oncologist successfully used pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC), generally used in abdomen malignancy, to treat a 72-year-old woman with ovarian cancer. Just like ...