Raphael M Byrne, Erin W Gilbert, Elizabeth N Dewey, Daniel O Herzig, Kim C Lu, Kevin G Billingsley, Karen E Deveney, V Liana Tsikitis
BACKGROUND: We sought to identify patterns of care for patients with appendiceal cancer and identify clinical factors associated with patient selection for multimodality treatment, including cytoreductive surgery and perioperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS/PIC). MATERIALS AND METHODS: National Cancer Database (NCDB) data from 2004 to 2014 of all diagnoses of appendiceal cancers were examined. We examined treatment modalities, as well as demographic, tumor-specific, and survival data...
June 2019: Journal of Surgical Research