In peritoneal cancer, cancer cells grow within the serous membrane, a component of the peritoneal cavity. There are two main types of peritoneal cancer: primary and secondary. Primary peritoneal ...

As blood in the peritoneal capillaries comes into contact with dialysate in the peritoneal cavity, solutes in the blood diffuse into the dialysate. The osmotic gradient created by glucose in the ...

Malignant mesothelioma is a rare tumor with an annual incidence in the United States of approximately 2500 cases per year. 1 Pleural malignant mesotheliomas are 10–30-fold more common than their ...

PPC is a type of cancer that starts in the peritoneal cavity in the abdomen, rather than cancer that has developed elsewhere in the body and spread to the peritoneum. Cancer that has started elsewhere ...

Peritoneal cancers may be primary or secondary. Symptoms and signs of the cancer are vague and the diagnosis is usually late with poor treatment outcome. Peritoneal cancers may be primary when they ...