Bulletin du cancer
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Peritoneal carcinomatosis represent an advanced form of colorectal cancer but different of others metastatic pathways. However carcinomatosis was associated with stage M in the TNM classification, because of a very poor prognosis, actually resulting despite new chemotherapeutic agents of a single year of survival. In an estimated 30% of patients, no other tumour location can be found. ⋯ This study had include 24 patients with an overall survival of 65% at 3 years. These survival result was the most prolonged never reported in the treatment of peritoneal colorectal carcinomatosis. HIPEC can be considered as a new standard even the exact place in clinical practice had to be more define because of alls recent progress are publish giving an important number of publications during the 2003-2004 years, some of them coming from French groups.