My daughter, age 44, has had chronic kidney disease since she was 10 years old. She had a renal transplant at 23, then ...

Use of calcium and magnesium to prevent oxaliplatin-related neurotoxicity. Background: In lieu of contouring individual small bowel loops, the peritoneal space (PS) has been suggested as a possible ...

In peritoneal cancer, cancer cells grow within the serous membrane, a component of the peritoneal cavity. There are two main types of peritoneal cancer: primary and secondary. Primary peritoneal ...

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

Surgical removal of the primary tumor is usually not enough. One in two colorectal cancer patients develops distant metastases. In about 30 percent of the cases, they appear in the lining of the ...

PPC is a type of cancer that starts in the peritoneal cavity in the abdomen, rather than cancer that has developed elsewhere in the body and spread to the peritoneum. Cancer that has started elsewhere ...

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 ...