The Treatment of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis in Advanced Gastric Cancer: State of the Art

Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in the world; 53–60% of patients show disease progression and die of peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). PC of gastric origin has an extremely inauspicious prognosis with a median survival estimate at 1–3 m...

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Main Authors: Giulia Montori, Federico Coccolini, Marco Ceresoli, Fausto Catena, Nicola Colaianni, Eugenio Poletti, Luca Ansaloni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:International Journal of Surgical Oncology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/912418