Explore the benefits of peritoneal dialysis (PD) as a home-based treatment for kidney failure, offering flexibility and ...

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 ...

A Q&A with Michael Foote, MD, MSK Gastrointestinal Medical Oncologist and member of the Peritoneal Surface Malignancies Consortium Group The Peritoneal Surface Malignancies Consortium Group (PSM ...

For nonviral transfection, the naked DNA can be delivered into cells or tissues either by chemical carriers such as liposome and cationic polymers or by physical/mechanical means exemplified by ...

A dose-escalation study of gemcitabine (Gem) plus oxaliplatin (Ox) in combination with imatinib in patients (pts) with gemcitabine-refractory advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PC). Background: Free ...

Peritoneal cancer is difficult to treat and has a poor survival prognosis. But a new and effective nanomedicine delivery system is offering some hope. The company is called NaDeNo and is well underway ...

PATIENTS undergoing peritoneal dialysis frequently require antibiotic therapy for intraperitoneal and systemic infections. Since information concerning transperitoneal movement of antibiotics is ...

Traditional flexible endoscopy has been limited to the confines of the gastrointestinal lumen; however, recent developments involving transluminal access to intra-abdominal structures hold the ...

Gastric cancer remains a formidable adversary, ranking as the fifth most common cancer and the third-leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with over 1,000,000 new cases and close to ...

New study and promising results from the first clinical trial in patients provide novel insights and new hope for one of the deadliest of cancers. Gastric cancer remains a formidable adversary, ...

Some indicators of hydrolytic processes in lymphocytes of blood of lung cancer patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full ...