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New gastric cancer study findings have been reported by scientists at Zhejiang University, Medical Department

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 6th, 2009

"Preoperative chemotherapy is considered an effective treatment option for patients with gastric cancer. We retrospectively evaluated neoadjuvant chemotherapy with oxaliplatin. leucovorin and 5-flurouracil (OLF) in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer to determine its feasibility, as well as impact on the curative resection rate and patients' survival," scientists writing in the journal Hepato - Gastroenterology report.

"A total of 87 patients with locally advanced gastric cancer that underwent preoperative chemotherapy combined with surgery or surgery alone were randomly matched according to the clinical TNM stage. The clinical responses to chemotherapy...

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