# OnCo record peritoneum (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/peritoneum/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "peritoneum" ;
  schema:name "Peritoneum and peritoneal metastases"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "peritoneal"@en, "peritoneal metastases"@en, "peritoneal carcinomatosis"@en, "carcinomatosis"@en, "peritoneal disease"@en, "peritoneal spread"@en, "peritoneal cavity"@en, "omentum"@en, "omental"@en ;
  schema:description "The thin membrane lining the abdominal cavity and covering the bowel. Cancers of the ovary, stomach, colon, appendix and pancreas seed it with small, poorly vascularised deposits that CT under-detects and drugs reach badly, which is why surgery with heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is used in appendiceal and selected ovarian cancers."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/peritoneum/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritoneal_carcinomatosis> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritoneal_carcinomatosis> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/hipec-procedure/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/debulking/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/staging-laparoscopy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/intraperitoneal-chemotherapy/> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/ovarian/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/gastric/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/>, <https://onco.cc/cancers/mesothelioma/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/> .