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Updates on Surgical Management of Advanced Gastric Cancer: New Evidence and Trends. Insights from the First International Course on Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery—Varese (Italy), December 2, 2011

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Between the Ninth International Gastric Cancer Congress (IGCC) in South-Korea (Seoul, 2011) and the Tenth IGCC in Italy (Verona, 2013), the Insubria University organized the First International Course on Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery (Varese, December 2, 2011), with the patronage of Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer (IRGGC) and the International Gastric Cancer Association (IGCA). The Course was intended to be a comprehensive update and review on advanced gastric cancer (GC) staging and treatment from well-known international experts. Clinical, research, and educational aspects of the surgeon’s role in the era of stage-adapted therapy were discussed. As highlighted in the meeting, in this final document we summarize and thoroughly analyze (with references only for well-acquired randomized control trials) the new and old open problems in surgical management of advanced GC.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

    Stefano Rausei MD, PhD, Gianlorenzo Dionigi MD, FACS, Luigi Boni MD, FACS, Francesco Frattini MD, Laura Ruspi MD, Francesca Rovera MD & Renzo Dionigi MD, FACS, FRCS (Hon Edin)

  2. Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

    Takeshi Sano MD, PhD

  3. Department of Surgery, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan

    Mitsuru Sasako MD, PhD

  4. Department of Surgery, Catholic University, Rome, Italy

    Alberto Biondi MD & Domenico D’Ugo MD, FACS

  5. Department of General Surgery, Pierantoni-Morgagni Hospital, Forlì, Italy

    Paolo Morgagni MD

  6. Department of Surgery, Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, Rome, Italy

    Alfredo Garofalo MD, FACS

  7. Regional Oesophago-Gastric Unit, Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, UK

    Shaun Preston Bsc, MD, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Gen)

  8. Department of Human Pathology and Oncology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy

    Daniele Marrelli MD & Franco Roviello MD

  9. Division of General Surgery, Hospital San Giovanni Battista, Turin, Italy

    Maurizio Degiuli MD

  10. Department of Pathology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

    Carlo Capella MD, PhD

  11. Department of General Surgery, Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy

    Rosario Sacco MD

  12. Department of Surgery, Ospedale di Borgo Trento, Verona, Italy

    Giovanni De Manzoni MD

  13. Department of Oncology, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

    Graziella Pinotti MD

  14. Department of Surgery, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea

    Sung Hoon Noh MD, PhD

  15. Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Daniel Coit MD, FACS

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Rausei, S., Dionigi, G., Sano, T. et al. Updates on Surgical Management of Advanced Gastric Cancer: New Evidence and Trends. Insights from the First International Course on Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery—Varese (Italy), December 2, 2011. Ann Surg Oncol 20, 3942–3947 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-013-3082-7

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