Peritoneal dialysis initiation in the U.S. rose significantly in health service areas previously classified as low-use areas, ...

Women on peritoneal dialysis had significantly lower risks than men for mortality, transfers to hemodialysis and other kidney outcomes, according to study data published in the Clinical Journal of the ...

FDA approved a PD-L1 companion test to identify patients with ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer who may receive first-line Keytruda.

Icodextrin use in peritoneal dialysis patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) is associated with better survival and cardiovascular outcomes compared with nonuse, according to a target trial ...

Research into diet and peritoneal cancer is limited. However, a diet high in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains and low in saturated fat, sodium, and added sugar may be beneficial. No single food or ...

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 (+/- ...

Understand how the rare relative of ovarian cancer is diagnosed and treated. Joanne Wilson was feeling less like herself — she was always tired, sometimes struggling just to get up in the morning, and ...

Doctors stage peritoneal cancer depending on the size and position of the cancer, where it has spread from, and how fast it can spread. There are two stages of primary peritoneal cancer and five ...

What is Peritoneal Dialysis? When your kidneys can no longer adequately remove waste products from your blood, then the procedure of peritoneal dialysis is used. PD or peritoneal dialysis is a therapy ...

For 65-year-old Ng Yuk-mui, connecting a pipe to her belly to flush out waste products from her blood has become a nightly routine since 2019 when she was diagnosed with kidney failure. With help from ...