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The '5-star' hospital with which María Cordón wants to change the patient experience

El Confidencial tours the Hospital Memorial Publio Cordón on its opening day in Pozuelo de Alarcón, a private centre with an investment of more than €100 million designed to break with the usual clinical coldness. The report, written by Fran Sánchez Becerril with photography by Valentina Viceconte, describes a building with eight robotic operating theatres, the Da Vinci robot, rooms conceived as suites and a nursing ratio of one nurse for every eight beds. The Quenet Torrent team is among the specialists mentioned.

"Buying excellent technology is a matter of money. The hard part is having doctors who know how to get the best out of it and work in a coordinated way." María Cordón, founder

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HIPEC still has a role: expert review on peritoneal carcinomatosis

The April 2026 issue of the PSOGI (Peritoneal Surface Oncology Group International) scientific bulletin brings together articles by international experts on the treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis and other peritoneal diseases, with a focus on cytoreductive surgery, HIPEC and new therapies. The central idea is that cytoreductive surgery remains the basis of treatment in selected patients and that HIPEC should not be abandoned, but used better according to the type of tumour and the drug used.

The issue reviews peritoneal carcinomatosis of colorectal origin (results of the PRODIGE 7 study and combinations with mitomycin C), peritoneal pseudomyxoma, mucinous appendiceal tumours (palbociclib, intraperitoneal paclitaxel, BromAc), the role of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, the use of organoids in precision medicine and the current evidence in advanced ovarian cancer.

"HIPEC still has a role, but we must refine when, how and with which drugs to use it." PSOGI World News, April 2026

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The Madrid hospital that has signed surgeons from around the world

Three days after the opening, El Confidencial looks at how Memorial Publio Cordón recruits surgical talent. The report names the Quenet-Torrent founding team among the centre's new staff: Dr. François Quenet, a specialist in peritoneal carcinomatosis; Dr. Juan José Torrent, who specialises in advanced ovarian cancer; Julio García Aguilar, a colorectal cancer expert trained in the United States; and Fabrizio Panaro, a specialist in liver surgery and transplantation. The newspaper describes the model of "global surgeons": highly complex specialists who operate in several countries and are not tied to a single centre.

"The hospital has incorporated the founding team of Quenet-Torrent clinic, a European reference in the treatment of complex tumours such as peritoneal carcinomatosis." El Confidencial

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