Category: Education
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Short answer: Before CRS/HIPEC, your surgeon should explain how likely it is they can remove the visible disease, what recovery could look like on a bad day as well as a good one, and what your other options are, including not having surgery. That’s the message of a new review from surgeons and oncologists at…
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A HIPEC operative report is your surgeon’s written account of your operation. It should describe how much disease was found (the PCI score), how much was left (the CC score), which parts of the abdominal lining were removed, and which organs were taken out.
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Short answer: Abdominal pain after HIPEC that comes and goes has more than one possible cause. Research on CRS/HIPEC patients documents small bowel blockages from about two weeks to five years after surgery, caused by scar tissue (adhesions) or by cancer, and some people have them more than once. These studies can’t tell you what…
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Short answer: A small new study of LAMN after appendectomy found that 3 of 13 people later developed pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP). All three had microscopic mucin outside the appendix on their pathology report, which put their tumors in the pT4 category, and two of them had a perforated appendix. All three had a clear CT…
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Appendix cancer nutrition is one of the biggest questions caregivers face, and no one hands you a manual. When Judi Moore told me her husband’s story, she kept coming back to one thing: she couldn’t find a single nutritionist who understood what George’s gut was now doing. She went back to school to become one…
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ChatGPT and Claude may give you more relevant answers when you tell them about your appendix cancer diagnosis. These appendix cancer AI instructions show you how to share that information, set rules for how AI answers you, and understand the risks.