Background: Breast cancer is the cancer with the highest incidence and mortality worldwide. Its treatment is multidisciplinary with surgery, systemic therapy, and radiotherapy. In Colombia, according to Globocan 2018, there is an age-standardized incidence rate of 44 per 100,000 women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEsophagogastric junction tumors are a challenging pathology for surgeons and the best treatment depends on an adequate initial localization and stadification. Approximately half of patients relapse after curative surgery during the first two years. Surgical resection could increase the survival of these patients, but the esophageal reconstruction is a surgical challenge for which there are multiple reconstruction techniques described with different organs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCholangiocarcinoma is a low-frequency neoplasm of onset with a poor prognosis. Peritoneal carcinomatosis is the most frequent site of metastasis with a standard palliative chemotherapy treatment. In the present article, we describe the case of a 35-year-old woman with peritoneal carcinomatosis secondary to an intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma who was treated with cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) as a non-standard therapeutic method.
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