Standard chemotherapy for newly diagnosed ovarian cancer is a platinum–taxane combination. The Gynecologic Oncology Group conducted a randomized, phase 3 trial that compared intravenous paclitaxel ...

Intraperitoneal chemotherapy is a treatment for cancers in the abdomen or belly area. This treatment delivers anti-cancer drugs directly into the peritoneal cavity, the area in the belly that contains ...

Even if gastric cancer spreads to the abdominal cavity and becomes terminal, treatment should not be abandoned. A study found ...

In patients with tumors confined to the peritoneal cavity, there is established pharmacokinetic and tumor biology-related evidence that intraperitoneal drug administration is advantageous. Three large ...

Adding intraperitoneal paclitaxel to intravenous paclitaxel plus oral S-1 improved overall survival in patients with gastric cancer and peritoneal metastasis, extending median survival to 19.4 months ...

In clinical practice, only a few risk factors remain that can be modified based on the decisions of patients and their physicians. The surgical decision making and chemotherapy administration choices, ...

Reducing Body Image–Related Distress in Women With Breast Cancer Using a Structured Online Writing Exercise: Results From the My Changed Body Randomized Controlled Trial We enrolled 183 patients and ...

A second-generation intraperitoneal insulin pump — the next-generation MiniMed Implantable Insulin Pump System (MIIPS 2020), which is not yet commercially licensed but can be obtained in some cases on ...

We undertook an exploratory cross-trial analysis (Figure 1) comparing intraperitoneal cisplatin plus paclitaxel in the patients in the study by Armstrong et al. with intravenous carboplatin plus ...

What is intraperitoneal chemotherapy? Your peritoneal (payr-ih-toh-NEE-ul) space is the area between the muscles and organs in your abdomen (belly) (see Figure 1). There is a little fluid between the ...