Why is the coexistence of gastr ...
The coexistence of gastric cancer with duodenal ulcer has been found empirically to be rare, but why it is rare is difficult to explain satisfactori ...
Japanese Gastric Cancer Associa ...
Since April 2010, the Japanese Public Health Insurance System has covered the costs incurred for performing 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emiss ...
Efficacy of NiTi Hand CACTM 30 ...
Background Although a novel technique for the performance of intestinal sutureless anastomosis using a compression device has recently been investig ...
Survival benefit of gastrectomy ...
Background This study was performed to investigate the role of surgery in patients with gastric cancer and distant metastases who had received syste ...
Management of adjuvant S-1 ther ...
Background The aim of this study was to determine the optimal management of adjuvant S-1 therapy for stage II or III gastric cancer, encompassing th ...
Treatment for gastric carcinoma ...
Background The strategy for treating extremely aged patients with gastric carcinoma is controversial. This study reviews the prognoses of patients a ...
Depth-predicting score for diff ...
Background Intramucosal andminute submucosal (M-SM1; \500 lm in depth) differentiated gastric cancers, which have a negligible risk of lymph node me ...
Nutritional recovery after open ...
Background The aim of this study was to evaluate longitudinal changes in body composition after laparoscopic and open gastrectomies for gastric canc ...
Increased Slug and decreased E- ...
Background The expression of E-cadherin correlates with the progression and metastasis of gastric cancer. Slug, a member of the snail family of tran ...
Survival and prognosticators of ...
Background Some patients experience a recurrence of cancer even after curative D2 gastrectomy followed by adjuvant S-1 chemotherapy. The objective o ...
Effectiveness and safety of oxa ...
Background Cisplatin has been largely used in the treatment of advanced, unresectable gastric cancer, mainly in combinations with fluoropyrimidines ...
Association of fluoropyrimidine ...
Background Although fluoropyrimidines, platinum agents, taxanes, and irinotecan are used in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer (AGC), it remai ...
Clinical impact of a strategy i ...
Background Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a technique developed to enable the endoscopic resection (ER) of large and ulcerative neoplasti ...
Neuroendocrine tumors of the st ...
Background Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) occur in various primary sites, but rarely in the stomach. NETs are classified into three types, carcinoids, ...
Adjuvant chemoradiation for res ...
Background The Intergroup 0116 study demonstrated that concurrent chemoradiation improved overall survival (OS) in resected gastric cancer. However, ...
The effectiveness of the new (7 ...
Background The most important prognostic factor after curative surgery for gastric carcinoma is the presence of lymph node metastases. According to ...
Randomized phase III study comp ...
Background Irinotecan hydrochloride and S-1, an oral fluoropyrimidine, have shown antitumor activity against advanced gastric cancer as single agent ...
Assessing clinical benefit resp ...
Background Paclitaxel has shown promise against advanced gastric cancer and associated malignant ascites with non-measurable lesions. In order to ev ...
General perioperative managemen ...
Background Gastric cancer is very common in Korea and Japan, where many hospitals annually perform high numbers of gastrectomies for gastric cancer. ...
Trans-vaginal specimen extracti ...
Background Although natural orifice extraction is now widely performed, there have been no reports of this procedure following subtotal gastrectomy ...
New method of endoscopic full-t ...
The indications for endoscopic full-thickness resection (EFTR) are limited because transmural communication during the entire procedure, causing tum ...
A novel procedure for Roux-en-Y ...
We describe herein our procedures for Rouxen- Y reconstruction using a transoral anvil following laparoscopy- assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG). Th ...
Laparoscopy-assisted subtotal g ...
Total gastrectomy or proximal gastrectomy is usually performed either as an open procedure or laparoscopically for the treatment of early gastric ca ...
Reporting patient characteristi ...
Background There is no consensus on which patient characteristics are the most suitable to report or to be used as stratification factors in clinica ...