Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma natural history

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Qurrat-ul-ain Abid, M.D.[2], Ammu Susheela, M.D. [3]

If left untreated, most of the patients with mucinous cystadenocarcinoma may be confined to the organ itself. Common complications of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma include metastasis and inguinal hernia. The presence of metastasis is associated with a particularly poor prognosis among patients with mucinous cystadenocarcinoma.

• If left untreated, most of the patients with mucinous cystadenocarcinoma may be confined to the organ itself.
• Some of them may develop metastasis to the gastrointestinal tract.^[1]

• Common complications of mucinous cystandenocarcinoma are:

• Metastasis
• Inguinal hernia

• Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma has a much more favorable prognosis than most other forms of adenocarcinoma.
• Advanced stages of mucinous cystadenocarcinoma have an inferior prognosis.
• 5-year survival has been stated to be approximately 50% when treated with cytoreduction (debulking) surgery to remove all of the tumors in the abdomen which is combined with hyperthermic intraoperative peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC).

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