The optimal timing of additional surgery after non-curative endoscopic resection to treat early gastric cancer: long-term follow-up study.

ABSTRACT: Patients with early gastric cancer (EGC) who undergo non-curative endoscopic resection (ER) require additional surgery. The aim of the study was to validate surgical and oncological outcomes according to the timing of additional surgery after non-curative endoscopic resection. We retrospectively analyzed long-term follow-up data on the 302 patients enrolled between January 2007 and December 2014. We validated our earlier suggestion that the optimal time interval from non-curative ER to additional surgery was 29 days. All patients were divided into two groups by reference to time intervals from ER to additional surgery of ≤29days (n = 133; group A) and >29 days (n = 169; group B). The median follow-up duration was 41.98 ± 21.23 months. As in our previous study, group B exhibited better surg

SUBMITTER: Cha JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892792 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature