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The mayor of Viana do Castelo today expressed his "concern" about possible restrictions in the local hospital's emergency department due to doctors'
Coimbra Hospitals with new oncological treatment for peritoneal disease The Coimbra Hospital and University Centre (CHUC) has carried out a new technique, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC), for the simultaneous treatment of a gastric carcinoma with peritoneal metastasisation. HIPEC consists of applying chemotherapy directly on the peritoneum, associated with a high temperature, during surgery. The new technique "allowed the treatment of a patient diagnosed with gastric carcinoma with peritoneal metastasis, who underwent radical subtotal gastrectomy and peritonectomy with hyper...