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SUBMITTER: Orditura M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3930964 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
World journal of gastroenterology 20140201 7
The authors focused on the current surgical treatment of resectable gastric cancer, and significance of peri- and post-operative chemo or chemoradiation. Gastric cancer is the 4(th) most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death worldwide. Surgery remains the only curative therapy, while perioperative and adjuvant chemotherapy, as well as chemoradiation, can improve outcome of resectable gastric cancer with extended lymph node dissection. More than half of radically ...[more]