Background In colorectal cancer, complete cytoreductive surgery associated with
hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy achieves encouraging results in early peritoneal …

Background Nearly a quarter of patients with locally advanced (T4 stage) or perforated colon
cancer are at risk of developing peritoneal metastases, often without curative treatment …

Colorectal peritoneal metastases (CPM) are associated with abbreviated survival and
significantly impaired quality of life. In patients with CPM, radical multimodality treatment …

Objective Osteopontin (OPN) is a phosphorylated glycoprotein which is associated with
tumor progression, development, and metastasis. Recently, it has been reported that OPN is …

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most frequent malignant neoplasms worldwide. Up to
now, no biomarker has been used to predict the prognosis and surveillance of patients with …

Simple Summary The peritoneum, a common metastatic site of colorectal cancer (CRC), has
a high incidence and poor prognosis that makes it difficult to diagnose early. Peritoneal …

Requests for testing various analytes in serous fluids (eg pleural, peritoneal, pericardial
effusions) are submitted daily to clinical laboratories. Testing of these fluids deviates from …

BACKGROUND: Free intraperitoneal tumour cells are an independent indicator of poor
prognosis, and are encorporated in current staging systems in upper gastrointestinal …

Background: Although various tumor markers have been utilized in management of stomach
cancer (SC), only a few reports have described relevance of examples such as CYFRA 21-1 …

Background Intraperitoneal cancer cells are detectable at the time of colorectal cancer
resection in some patients. The significance of this, particularly in patients with no other …