7,8 Mucinous appendiceal neoplasms are ... In recurrence of peritoneal metastasis from colorectal cancer, estimation of PCI using laparoscopy failed to identify a peritoneal deposit in 18% of ...

It emerged in the 1990s as a treatment for pseudomyxoma peritonei. This rare type of metastatic peritoneal cancer develops in the appendix and secretes mucin (mucus) into the abdominal cavity. Over ...

Without treatment, it will take over the peritoneal cavity. It can press on the bowel ... Some types of ovarian cancer cells also produce mucin. Often, pseudomyxoma peritonei is only properly ...

“We are encouraged by the Phase 2 study results for pegsitacianine in the detection of residual disease for both mucinous and non-mucinous metastatic nodules across multiple cancer types and ...

After several visits to her doctor, a CT scan and biopsies, Hind was diagnosed with a rare mucinous cancer called pseudomyxoma peritonei (or PMP), which affects about one in a million people.

A 51-year-old woman from West Bengal was recently treated for peritoneal ... appendicular mucinous tumours) in the pelvis and around the cecum (first part of the colon). Cancer of the appendix ...

Peritoneal mucinous carcinomatosis (PMCA) is the type in which cells from the tumor do show cancer. It can be hard to diagnose PMP because it may look and act like other diseases. Sometimes it's ...