Treatment of resectable gastric cancer: current standards of care.
Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. The local surgical treatment of gastric cancer varies geographically. However, there has been a confluence of opinion regarding the optimal therapy of gastric cancer toward multimodality therapy. In the East, many clinicians pursue adjuvant chemotherapy after a D2 resection. However, in the West, clinicians use either perioperative chemotherapy or postoperative chemoradiation. It remains unclear at this time whether either perioperative approach is the optimal approach.
Kovoor
Philip Abraham
PA
Georgetown University Hospital, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA. PAK109@gunet.georgetown.edu
Hwang
Jimmy
J
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D012008:Recurrence; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*