Gastric Cancer

Researchers at Yonsei University, Medical Department publish new data on gastric cancer

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, March 24th, 2008

According to recent research published in the journal Annals of Surgical Oncology, "Endoscopic surgery has not been accepted as a curative treatment for intramucosal undifferentiated early gastric cancer (EGC). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive factors of lymph node metastasis and explore the possibility of using endoscopic surgery for undifferentiated EGC."

"We retrospectively analyzed 646 patients with undifferentiated EGC who had undergone gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy from January 2000 to March 2005. We used univariate and multivariate analysis to identify clinicopathological features that were predictive factors for lymph node...

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Source: Clinical Oncology Week (2008-03-24)

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