One cancer survivor in the Capital Region is looking to recruit women for a study that she says could change the way ovarian cancer survivors live their lives. Part of her mission includes educating ...

In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI), has demonstrated the ...

Primary tumors arising in the gastrointestinal system, ovary or pancreas may spread and lead to secondary cancers such as metastatic omentum cancer.

(LOS ANGELES) – July 1, 2022 - In their recent publication in Cell Reports, a team of scientists, led by Xiling Shen, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical ...

Writing in 1902, Henry O. Marcy implored his surgical colleagues to respect the “great fatty apron” that protects abdominal organs from infection 1. That apron is the omentum, a fatty tissue that ...

Navigating the treatment of a deadly form of cancer can be not just physically, but emotionally exhausting. Finding out the ...

Almost one-third of patients undergoing omentectomy for peritoneal metastases had occult omental metastases, supporting routine omentectomy prior to cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic ...

The body’s main deposit of abdominal fat hangs like an apron over the organs of the abdomen. This adipose tissue plays important immune roles, but can also serve as a source of chronic inflammation in ...

Access to care and outcomes for noncurative esophagogastric cancer: A population-based geographic study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium. This ...

Clinicopathologic features and treatment outcomes of patients (pts) with HER2-positive (pos) adenocarcinomas (ACA) of the esophagus (E) and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ). Background: Omental ...