Now and Near Future of Adjuvant Therapy for Gastric Cancer
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Adjuvant chemotherapy following R0 resection of advanced gastric cancer has been performed in Japan since the 1950 [1]. Many phase III studies have been conducted to evaluate the role of adjuvant chemotherapy compared to surgery alone. However, the efficacy of adjuvant chemotherapy was not demonstrated for some time for several reasons, including small sample sizes, study population heterogeneity, use of various chemotherapy regimens, and differences in surgical quality.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016