Adjuvant and/or neoadjuvant therapy for gastric cancer? A perspective review

Surgery is still the only curative therapy for locoregional gastric cancer. Hereby it is important to achieve negative margins (R0 resection) and to perform an adequate lymph-node dissection (D2 lymphadenectomy). Unfortunately most cases of gastric cancer are diagnosed in a locally advanced tumor st...

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Main Authors: Rebekka Schirren, Daniel Reim, Alexander R. Novotny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1758834014558839