Thursday night's episode of "Grey's Anatomy" had the hit show's producers calling a Pittsburgh doctor for his expertise on a procedure pioneered at UPMC.

"It saved my life. I've had it twice. It's prolonged my lifetime at least 5 years, and I'm sure a lot longer," said cancer patient Mike Dvorsky of the heated chemotherapy treatment he underwent.. (read more)

Jerre Ramlow, age 74, whose cancer was cured in part from HIPEC treatment from Dr. Quiñones, says, “I have been cancer-free for the past two and a half years now… the high quality of life I have today is due to being in Dr. Quiñones’s care. Those facing cancer should consider HIPEC as a treatment option.” (read more)

He was diagnosed with pseudomyxoma peritonei, or PMP, in which a tumor, usually in the appendix, bursts and spreads mucus throughout the organs. Few, if any, symptoms exhibit themselves, so patients can go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed while the mucus continues to grow and spread... (read more)

"It's remarkable," said Oxley. "Remarkable. It's just a great feeling to be able to pull back out of the mire and to come back to life again". (read more)

In a crowded operating room deep inside St. Agnes Hospital on June 3, Dr. Jesùs Esquivel carefully sliced cancer tissue from a patient's appendix and out of his abdomen. (read more)

"It just came out of the blue," cancer patient Assya Bardarov said. "It's horrifying."

Bardarov, diagnosed with ovarian cancer in May, just this month discovered she also had metastatic stomach cancer. (read more)

"It was a shock. I thought it was appendicitis or some type of blockage in my stomach," said patient Bob Morrissey.

Last July, after three months of stomach pain, the 41-year-old Brockton police detective and devoted dad was diagnosed with a rare form of appendix cancer. (read more)

While training for her fourth marathon in December of 2003, race walker Allison Kingston
was diagnosed with high risk stage II appendiceal cancer during an emergency appendectomy. (read more)