PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the prognostic significance of tumor size for 5-year survival rate in patients with gastric cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 1,697 patients with gastric cancer, who underwent potentially curative gastrectomy, were evaluated. Patients were divided into 4 groups as follows, according to the median size of early and advanced gastric can...

Background & Aims: Gastric carcinoma is the second most frequent cancer worldwide. Adjuvant treatment of gastric cancer varies worldwide; many differences have been observed in their clinical and pathological features, and survival rate. The aim of this study was to determine clinical and pathological features, and survival rate in a group of patients in south-east of Iran. Methods: Patient rec...

objective(s): expression of her2 in gastric carcinoma has direct prognostic and therapeutic implications in patient management. the aim of this study is to determine whether a relationship exists between standardized uptake value (suv) and expression of her2 in advanced gastric carcinoma. methods: we analyzed the 18f-fdg pet/ct results of 109 patients that underwent gastrectomy for advanced gas...

Gastric cancer is the fifth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer mortality. In advanced gastric cancer patients, the treatment outcomes are dismal. With the development of the molecular targeted therapy, the prognosis in patients with advanced and unresectable gastric cancer are improved. This article reviewed the molecular targeted agents in clinical use, thei...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Improvements in the endoscopic evaluation and management of gastric cancer have made it possible to determine the depth of invasion during endoscopic examination. The aim of this study was to elucidate the differences between early gastric cancer (EGC) that resembles advanced gastric cancer (AGC) and AGC that resembles EGC. METHODS We retrieved cases of EGC-like AGC and AGC-li...

Background: The fourth most common cancer in the world, stomach cancer, is typically treated surgically. 5-year survival rate for patients with advanced gastric (AGC) ranges from 7 to 27%.

Purpose: Omentectomy is a standard procedure to prevent advanced gastric cancer recurrence; however, there no supporting evidence. We aimed evaluate the benefit of omentectomy for patients with pT3 cancer.

background: north of iran is amongst high incidence rate areas of gastric carcinoma where environmental carcinogenic compounds especially agricultural pesticides are massively used. cytochrome p450 2e1 (cyp2e1) enzyme metabolically activates a large number of low molecular mass xenobiotics. the polymorphic nature of cyp2e1 gene control elements is associated with interindividual differences for...