Outcome of phase II study of intraoperative radiation therapy and external-beam radiation therapy plus gemcitabine in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer No significant financial ...

Phase IIb trial of fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, and paclitaxel (POF) compared with fluorouracil, feucovorin, and irinotecan (IF) as first-line treatment for advanced gastric cancer (AGC) No ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Extensive intraoperative peritoneal lavage (EIPL) failed to improve survival in patients with resectable gastric cancer, results of a large Japanese study showed. Patients who ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Peritoneal hypothermia demonstrated feasibility but failed to reduce infarct size in a cohort of ...

In this study, patients were followed up for less than 5 years with the median follow-up at analysis being 32 months. Although 35% of cytology-negative PCR-positive patients developed no peritoneal ...

Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death worldwide, accounting for over 1,000,000 new cases and nearly 800,000 deaths per year. The poor prognosis of gastric cancer is largely due to ...

Forty patients were treated with the conventional Hartmann approach (resection plus a diverting colostomy) and 43 patients were managed by laparoscopy and peritoneal lavage. Patients in the lavage ...