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New gastric cancer study findings recently were reported by investigators at Research Institute and Hospital

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 4th, 2009

Research findings, 'Developing an institutional protocol guideline for laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy,' are discussed in a new report. According to a study from Korea, "The technical difficulty of lymph node dissection in laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) remains a barrier for extending the indication for this modality and limits its widespread clinical practice. The aim of this study was to evaluate our institutional guidelines for LADG, limiting the indications for this modality to only clinical stage T1N0 or T1N1 gastric cancer."

"From January 2002 to October 2006, a total of 294 cases of LADG and 664 cases of open distal gastrectomy (ODG) for...

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