| Literature DB >> 26697203 |
Hamza Guend1, Sunil Patel1, Garrett M Nash1.
Abstract
Patients with peritoneal metastasis from colorectal cancer represent a distinct subset with regional disease rather than systemic disease. They often have poorer survival outcomes with systemic chemotherapy. Optimal cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC) offers such patients a more directed therapy with improved survival. In this review, we discuss the diagnosis, evaluation and classification, as well as rational for treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) secondary to colorectal cancer.Entities:
Keywords: Colorectal peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC); cytoreductive surgery; intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC)
Year: 2015 PMID: 26697203 PMCID: PMC4671857 DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2078-6891.2015.078
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Gastrointest Oncol ISSN: 2078-6891