title: [Surgical treatment of stomach cancer].
abstract: Adequate surgical radicality in regard to the extent of gastric resection as well as to systematic lymphadenectomy with the aim of R-0-resection is the treatment of choice in gastric carcinoma. The demand for such a procedure based on the results obtained in the last years with increasing rates of resectability together with decreasing operative mortality. In the own material among a total of 1704 operations for gastric carcinoma the rate of resectability raised from 70% to 81.5% whereas overall operative mortality fell from 17.5% to 4.7%. The 5-year survival rate following different resective procedures was 26%; if these results can be improved by perioperative chemotherapy must be verified by running multimodality treatment studies.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Abdominal- und Transplantationschirurgie, Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jähne
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wilke
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pichlmayr
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000401:mortality; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate