Abstract
With great interest we read the article by Cotte et al.1 concerning the prognostic significance of peritoneal cytology in colorectal and gastric cancer. The authors performed a prospective multicentre analysis on the prognostic significance of intraperitoneal free cancer cells (IPCC) in 1364 patients with various gastrointestinal malignancies. The authors concluded that IPCC was not an independent prognostic factor and did not add any additional prognostic information to known tumour related prognostic factors.
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