Surveillance for Gastric Cancer.
This article discusses the current National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines and other available Western and Eastern guidelines for the surveillance of gastric cancer following surgical resection. It reviews the literature assessing the utility of intensive surveillance strategies for gastric cancer, which fails to show an improvement in survival. The unique issues relating to follow-up of early gastric cancer and after endoscopic resection of early gastric cancer are discussed. This article also reviews the available modalities for follow-up. In addition, it briefly discusses the advancements in treatment of recurrent and metastatic disease and the implications for gastric cancer survival and surveillance strategies.
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of North Carolina, 170 Manning Drive, CB #7213, 1150 Physicians Office Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7213, USA.
Shachar
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Laks
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of North Carolina, 170 Manning Drive, CB #7213, 1150 Physicians Office Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7213, USA.
Michael O
MO
Meyers
Division of Surgical Oncology, University of North Carolina, 170 Manning Drive, CB #7213, 1150 Physicians Office Building, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7213, USA. Electronic address: kimhj@med.unc.edu.
Hong Jin
HJ
Kim
D000359:Aftercare / Q000379:methods; D032921:Consensus; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer / Q000379:methods; D005743:Gastrectomy; D018530:Gastric Stump / Q000601:surgery; D005773:Gastroscopy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D059146:Metastasectomy / Q000379:methods; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000175:diagnosis; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
Adenocarcinoma; Early gastric cancer; Follow-up studies; Gastrectomy; Gastric cancer; Stomach neoplasms; Surveillance