Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: Current State of the Art and Schools of Thought

Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) is a global challenge of modern oncology representing the most unfavourable scenario in diverse-locality tumourisation. Despite certain attention by oncological community, management PC patients currently palliative, which weakly promotes research into basic principles this morbidity. This literature review attempts to comprehensively cover problematic from perspective and presents key evidence on world schools thought area. Briefly taking, peritoneal viewed today as local process conventional implantation theory, imposes locoregional character all current or emerging therapies, such cytoreductive surgery hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Their inadequate efficacy largely due pronounced gaps our understanding logistics signalling. PSOGI organisation for centralising specialty effort carcinomatosis. its geography approach discussion, multitude scientific questions remain unanswered impeding establishment novel effective therapies. The seven countries that nurtured distinguished studies are USA, UK, Japan, China, Italy, France Germany. Taking perspective, an insufficient Russia should be addressed. founding fostering national institutions will benefit cancer progress science.