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. 2023 Nov 22;13:20458. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-47510-0

Table 2.

EORTC QLQ-CR29 abdominal pain scores among colorectal cancer patients undergoing PIPAC-OX or PTS.

Baseline 4 weeks postoperative
PIPAC-OX PTS p value Cohens D PIPAC-OX PTS p value Cohens D
Abdominal pain 20 ± 17 18 ± 26 0.688 39 ± 25 15 ± 23  < 0.001 0.998

All values are mean ± standard deviation; PIPAC-OX Pressurized Intraperitoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy with oxaliplatin, PTS primary tumor surgery. All scores range from 0 to 100. A higher score on the abdominal pain scale represents more abdominal pain.

Significant and clinically relevant values are in bold.