Gastric Cancer

Reports from Yonsei University, Medical Department highlight recent research in gastric cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, June 2nd, 2009

"The purpose of this study was to clarify the clinical significance of tumor size in advanced gastric cancer and to evaluate the risk factors of survival in advanced gastric cancer with large tumor size. The cut-off point for tumor size, 90th percentile value of tumor size in advanced gastric cancer, was determined to be 10 cm," investigators in Seoul, South Korea report.

"We retrospectively studied the clinicopathological features and prognosis of 406 patients with advanced gastric tumors measuring 10 cm or more. Large tumors had a propensity for the following: Borrmann type IV, adjacent organ invasion, lymph node and distant metastasis, and stage IV classification....

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-02)

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