Open AccessMultimodal Treatment of Gastric Cancer: Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, and Timing
Author(s) -
Marco Bernini,
Lapo Bencini
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.432
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2090-1410
pISSN - 2090-1402
DOI - 10.1155/2012/246290
Subject(s) - radiation therapy , medicine , cancer , chemotherapy , intensive care medicine , general surgery , oncology , surgery
Surgery is no more alone in the scenario of gastric cancer treatment since many years. Although the encouraging results of adjuvant chemotherapy obtained in Japan with S-1 were not achieved in Western countries, a novel approach, after the results of MAGIC trial, published in 2006, has been introduced by means of perioperative, or just preoperative, chemotherapy in the West, with many trials ongoing.
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