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SUBMITTER: Petrillo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6468561 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Petrillo Angelica A Pompella Luca L Tirino Giuseppe G Pappalardo Annalisa A Laterza Maria Maddalena MM Caterino Marianna M Orditura Michele M Ciardiello Fortunato F Lieto Eva E Galizia Gennaro G Castoro Carlo C De Vita Ferdinando F
Cancers 20190321 3
Gastric cancer (GC) is the fifth-most common cancer worldwide and an important cause of cancer-related-death. The growing knowledge of its molecular pathogenesis has shown that GC is not a single entity, but a constellation of different diseases, each with its own molecular and clinical characteristics. Currently, surgery represents the only curative approach for localized GC, but only 20% of patients (pts) showed resectable disease at diagnosis and, even in case of curative resection, the progn ...[more]