13th International Congress on Peritoneal Surface Malignancies, September 2023, Venice

The annual meeting of the Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International (PSOGI) was held this time in Venice, on the island of Lido, from 4 to 6 September 2023. PSOGI is an international non-profit organisation whose main goal is to promote research and innovation, as well as education in the care of patients with peritoneal metastases arising from various cancers. It is a recognised scientific body that periodically publishes recommendations for the management of peritoneal metastases based on the latest clinical research findings.
I was encouraged to attend the congress by Prof. Wojciech Polkowski, Head of the Clinic of Oncological Surgery at the University Clinical Hospital No. 1 in Lublin, through whom I was assigned to prepare a review article on the current applications of a particular chemotherapy technique for ovarian cancer, namely Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC). The insights gained from this congress were subsequently incorporated into a publication released a few months later.