A proposal of Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology for standardizing cytoreductive surgery plus hypertermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy procedures in Brazil: pseudomixoma peritonei, appendiceal tumors and malignant peritoneal mesothelioma

• Main Authors: Thales Paulo Batista, Bruno José Queiroz Sarmento, Janina Ferreira Loureiro, Andrea Petruzziello, Ademar Lopes, Cassio Cortez Santos, Cláudio de Almeida Quadros, Eduardo Hiroshi Akaishi, Eduardo Zanella Cordeiro, Felipe José Fernández Coimbra, Gustavo Andreazza Laporte, Leonaldson Santos Castro, Ranyell Matheus Spencer Sobreira Batista, Samuel Aguiar Júnior, Wilson Luiz Costa Júnior, Fábio Oliveira Ferreira
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
• Series: Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões
• Subjects: Injeções Intraperitoneais; Hipertermia Induzida; Quimioterapia; Neoplasias Peritoneais
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-69912017000500530&lng=en&tlng=en

ABSTRACT Cytoreductive surgery plus hypertermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy has emerged as a major comprehensive treatment of peritoneal malignancies and is currently the standard of care for appendiceal epithelial neoplasms and pseudomyxoma peritonei syndrome as well as malignant peritoneal mesothelioma. Unfortunately, there are some worldwide variations of the cytoreductive surgery and hypertermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy techniques since no single technique has so far demonstrated its superiority over the others. Therefore, standardization of practices might enhance better comparisons between outcomes. In these settings, the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology considered it important to present a proposal for standardizing cytoreductive surgery plus hypertermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy procedures in Brazil, with a special focus on producing homogeneous data for the developing Brazilian register for peritoneal surface malignancies.