The impact of the extent of surgical resection on survival of gastric cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to examine the significance of the extent of gastric resection on the postoperative and overall gastric cancer survival.

Background

Resection with clean margins (4 cm or more) is widely accepted as the standard-ized goal for radical treatment of gastric cancer according to current guidelines, while the type of resection (subtotal or total) is still a matter of debate.

Patients and methods

The study included 155 patients diagnosed and treated in the Department of Surgery, Aleksandrovska University Hospital between January 2005 and December 2014. In order to determine the significance of the resection volume, we excluded from the study 54 patients receiving palliative intervention or staging exploratory laparoscopy. The remaining 101

SUBMITTER: Angelov KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4968853 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature