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Cytoreductive surgery plus hyperthermic perioperative chemotherapy to treat peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer
The Lancet Oncology, 07/30/2012
Sugarbaker PH et al. – Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a common presentation in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and the overall survival is poor. In most patients, the disease remains limited to the peritoneal cavity. Therefore, investigators have applied cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic perioperative chemotherapy as the standard approach for selected patients with peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer. Overall, very promising long–term survival has been shown in a subset of patients with a limited extent of peritoneal disease before treatment.
