Open AccessImpact of interval timing to surgery on tumor response after neoadjuvant treatment for gastric cancer
Author(s) -
Juan Ocaña Jiménez,
Pablo Priego,
Marta Cuadrado,
Luis Alberto Blázquez,
S. Picot,
Paula Pastor Peinado,
Federico Longo,
F. López,
María Alejandra Caminoa-Lizarralde,
Julio Galindo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas/revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2020.6763/2019
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer surgery , cancer , neoadjuvant therapy , oncology , complete response , interval (graph theory) , general surgery , chemotherapy , breast cancer , mathematics , combinatorics
neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) followed by radical surgery is the optimal approach for locally advanced gastric cancer (GC). Interval timing to surgery after NACT in GC is controversial. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of NACT interval time on tumor response and overall survival.