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Gastric Cancer

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Radiation Oncology

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Gastric cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Surgery is the primary treatment modality for resectable gastric cancer. An estimated 50% of the disease is resectable. However, the cure rate after surgery alone for locally advanced cancer is low, while the overall survival rate after completed D2 is around 30% in most parts of the world other than Japan, where the rate approaches 60%. Adjuvant treatment, which include perioperative chemotherapy and postoperative chemoradiotherapy has been demonstrated to improve survival for locally advanced gastric cancer.

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Zhang, Z. (2008). Gastric Cancer. In: Lu, J.J., Brady, L.W. (eds) Radiation Oncology. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77385-6_13

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