For a patient and his beloved ones it can be extraordinarily difficult to find comprehensive and valid information on peritoneal deseases and their treatment ISSPP specialists from all over the world provide you with up-to-date infromation.
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Information for patients
ISSPP is currently building up a knowledge database on benign and malignant peritoneal and pleural diseases.
During the construction phase, ISSPP will transfer you to other non-profit websites, which quality has been assessed by ISSPP experts. However, ISSPP can not take any responsibility for the content of external websites. For some topics, there might be not website in plain language available. ISSPP will change this in the future
Diseases
- Stomach Cancer
https://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines/content/PDF/stomach.pdf
- Ovarian Cancer
https://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines/ovarian/files/assets/common/downloads/files/ovarian.pdf
- Pancreatic Cancer
https://www.nccn.org/patients/guidelines/pancreatic/index.html
- Pseudomyxoma peritonei
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/7488/pseudomyxoma-peritonei
Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma
https://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=EN&Expert=168811
- Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
https://www.phlbi.org/pacific-mesothelioma-center/
- Peritonitis
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peritonitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20376247
- Endometriosis
Therapies
- Surgery
https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2013/09/a08-p-a.pdf
- Systemic chemotherapy
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/pp.2018.3.issue-1/pp-2018-0102/pp-2018-0102.pdf
- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy
- Hyperthermic IntraPeritoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy (HIPEC)
- Pressurized IntraPeritoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy (PIPAC)
- Immunotherapy
