Ninety-day post-operative morbidity and mortality using the National Cancer Institute’s common terminology criteria for adverse events better describe post-operative outcome after cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy

Among commonly reported morbidity's classification, 90-day morbidity based on NCI-CTCAE classification represents a legitimate metric of CRS-HIPEC quality. Post-operative morbidity after CRS-HIPEC should be reported using 90-day NCI-CTCAE classification.