Tom Cecil is Clinical Director at the Peritoneal Malignancy Institute, Basingstoke, Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Transplant Surgeon, Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, UK. John Bunni is a Consultant Colorectal and General Surgeon, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK. He is also Visiting Lecturer, University of Bath, UK; Honorary Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK and was awarded the ASGBI Gold Medal. Akash Mehta is Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital & Academic Institute, London, UK and holds the ESSO European Certification in Peritoneal Surface Oncology.