Please find below a Letter to the Editor written by Laura A. Lambert, MD, FACS, FSSO, on behalf of ACPMP’s Medical Advisory Board for the Appendix Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (ACPMP) Research Foundation. This letter was prompted by concerns raised to the organization by patients regarding the review article recently published in JAMA, titled “Diagnosis and Management of Acute Appendicitis in Adults”. Specifically, ACPMP patients...

We write today to share with you that Karolyn Lewandowski, ACPMP's Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, is transitioning from her role with ACPMP after serving our community for nearly 14 years. Karolyn began volunteering for the ACPMP Research Foundation upon the organization’s formation in 2008 following her husband’s diagnosis of appendix cancer and pseudomyxoma peritonei (PMP) in late 2007....