Current role of surgical therapy in gastric cancer.
Surgery is currently the only potentially curative treatment for gastric cancer. Since the inception of the gastrectomy for cancer of the stomach, there has been debate over the bounds of surgical therapy, balancing potential long-term survival with perioperative morbidity and mortality. This review delineates the current role of surgery in preoperative staging, curative resection, and palliative treatment for gastric cancer.
Department of Surgery, Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, APC 439, Providence, RI 02903, United States.
Ryan
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Swan
Thomas J
TJ
Miner
D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010166:Palliative Care; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D015996:Survival Rate; D016896:Treatment Outcome