Peritoneal surface malignancies (PSMs) are usually associated with a poor prognosis.
Nonetheless, in line with advances in the management of most abdominopelvic metastatic …

Gastric adenocarcinoma, even when diagnosed at an early (localized) disease stage, poses
a major health-care burden with cure rates that remain unsatisfactorily low, particularly in …

Gastric cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Over 95% of
gastric cancers are adenocarcinomas, which are typically classified based on anatomic …

There exist differences in the epidemiological characteristics, clinicopathological features,
tumor biological characteristics, treatment patterns, and drug selections between gastric …

Gastric cancer is the fifth most frequently diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of
death from cancer in the world. Several advances have been made in the staging …

Background Peritoneal carcinomatosis is an increasingly common finding in gastric
carcinoma. Previously, patients were treated as terminal, and median survival was poor. The …

Background Despite improved preoperative imaging techniques, patients with incurable or
unresectable gastric cancer are still subjected to non-therapeutic laparotomy. Diagnostic …

Cancers originating in the esophagus, gastroesophageal junctions, and stomach constitute
a major health problem worldwide. In the United States, 37,600 new diagnoses of and …

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine prospectively the utility of adding
preoperative [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG‐PET)/computed …

Staging laparoscopy (SL) is frequently carried out in patients with advanced gastric cancer.
However, some clinical questions are being debated and consensus must be obtained. With …