The role of adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer continues to be debated. The presence of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) after surgery predicts very poor recurrence-free survival, whereas its ...

Enhancing tumor-specific T-cell immunity by inhibiting programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1)–programmed death 1 (PD-1) signaling has shown promise in the treatment of extensive-stage small-cell lung ...

Chemotherapy and radiation therapy may be used together or individually in cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is medication and radiation therapy uses high dose energy. A cancer diagnosis can be ...

Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses drugs that kill rapidly dividing cancer cells to prevent them from growing and making more cells. Many chemotherapy drugs have adverse effects that can be severe.

Oral chemotherapy is a drug, normally in pill form, used to help kill or weaken cancer cells. The drug can be taken at home, versus in a hospital setting. Chemotherapy is a treatment that’s designed ...

Conventional anticancer chemotherapy has been historically thought to act through direct killing of tumor cells. This concept stems from the fact that cytotoxic drugs interfere with DNA synthesis and ...

The goal of cancer treatment is to put you in remission or control the spread of your cancer. Your treatment plan will depend on the type of cancer you have, the stage of your cancer, your overall ...

aOG is an Academic Surgeon at the Surgical Department of Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Lyon Sud, Pierre Bénite, France bFNG is Professor at the Surgical Department of Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire ...

Introduction Intraperitoneal dissemination is a major problem resulting in very poor prognosis and a rapid marked deterioration in the quality of life of patients. Pressurised intraperitoneal aerosol ...

The authors report a case of pseudomyxoma peritonei with gelatinous peritoneum in a 47-year-old-woman. The main symptom for discovery was a chronic pelvic abdominal pain. This disease is particularly ...