Guest guest Posted January 11, 2004 Report Share Posted January 11, 2004 Can anyone tell me the best way to treat peritoneal dissemination after colon cancer surgery? Thanks Shig Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2004 Report Share Posted January 12, 2004 Shig-There are two general courses of management of peritoneal metastasis. One is to try to shrink or slow them down with chemotherapy. Perhaps some of the new drugs EGF and VEGF inhibitors that hopefully will be available soon may improve the control. The other method is aggressive surgery combined with intraperitoneal chemotherapy at the time of surgery. This has been a controversial treatment, but is gaining acceptance for selected patients who have no other metastatic lesions in the chest, liver or distant lymph nodes, and who are in all other respects healthy. It is a very major surgery and is not common and is not for everyone. It has resulted in some cures. Dr. Sugarbaker has been a proponent of such surgery and if you search the archives under Sugarbaker you will find a number of posts regarding his procedure. Best wishes, Kris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2004 Report Share Posted January 13, 2004 Hi, Kris! Thank you very much for the information. Shig -- -In colon_cancer_support , " krissdvm " <krissdvm@y...> wrote: > Shig-There are two general courses of management of peritoneal > metastasis. One is to try to shrink or slow them down with > chemotherapy. Perhaps some of the new drugs EGF and VEGF inhibitors > that hopefully will be available soon may improve the control. > > The other method is aggressive surgery combined with intraperitoneal > chemotherapy at the time of surgery. This has been a controversial > treatment, but is gaining acceptance for selected patients who have > no other metastatic lesions in the chest, liver or distant lymph > nodes, and who are in all other respects healthy. It is a very major > surgery and is not common and is not for everyone. It has resulted > in some cures. Dr. Sugarbaker has been a proponent of such > surgery and if you search the archives under Sugarbaker you will find > a number of posts regarding his procedure. > > Best wishes, > > Kris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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