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Since 2000, several studies have reported positive results in reasonable-size randomized controlled trials of adjuvant treatment for potentially curable gastric cancer. At present, postoperative adjuvant chemoradiotherapy and perioperative chemotherapy are the standard of care in the United States and Europe (including Great Britain), respectively, while postoperative S-1 monotherapy is the standard of care in Japan. The effect of adjuvant treatment varies according to the type of surgery, and the best results so far have been observed in the adjuvant chemotherapy of TS-1 for gastric cancer (ACTS-GC) trial, in which D2 surgery followed by S-1 monotherapy was tested. The role of radiotherapy after D2 dissection remains unclear.
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Sasako, M. Adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-FU or regimens including oral fluoropyrimidine for curable gastric cancer. Gastric Cancer 12 (Suppl 1), 10–15 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10120-008-0465-8
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