Is conversion therapy possible in stage IV gastric cancer: the proposal of new biological categories of classification

K Yoshida, K Yamaguchi, N Okumura, T Tanahashi… - Gastric cancer, 2016 - Springer
Conversion therapy for gastric cancer (GC) has been the subject of much recent attention. It
is defined as a surgical treatment aiming at an R0 resection after chemotherapy for tumors …

Long-term survival outcomes of advanced gastric cancer patients who achieved a pathological complete response with neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a systematic …

H Cho, J Nakamura, Y Asaumi, H Yabusaki… - Annals of surgical …, 2015 - Springer
Background A pathologic complete response (pCR) can sometimes be induced by intensive
or long-term neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). This prognostic research study based on a …

Correlation of pathological complete response with survival after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer treated with radical …

Z Li, F Shan, Y Wang, Y Zhang, L Zhang, S Li, Y Jia… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy before radical gastrectomy is preferred for locally
advanced gastric cancer. To avoid the problematic use of pTNM for patients after …

[HTML][HTML] Early results of a randomized two-by-two factorial phase II trial comparing neoadjuvant chemotherapy with two and four courses of cisplatin/S-1 and docetaxel …

T Aoyama, K Nishikawa, K Fujitani, K Tanabe, S Ito… - Annals of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a promising method of improving the
survival of resectable gastric cancer. Cisplatin/S-1 (CS) and docetaxel/cisplatin/S-1 (DCS) …

Accuracy of EUS and CT imaging in preoperative gastric cancer staging

M Fairweather, K Jajoo, N Sainani… - Journal of surgical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background Neoadjuvant therapy is recommended for locally advanced gastric cancer
patients (stage IB–IIIC). The objective of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of endoscopic …

An ensemble belief rule base model for pathologic complete response prediction in gastric cancer

Z Wang, Q Wang, J Wu, M Ma, Z Pei, Y Sun… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is well known that the decision-making on treating gastric cancer is usually the summary of
several experts' advice. Moreover, the interpretability and reliability of a model used to assist …

Characteristics and survival of gastric cancer patients with pathologic complete response to preoperative therapy

AP Stark, N Ikoma, YJ Chiang, JS Estrella… - Annals of surgical …, 2019 - Springer
Background Pathologic complete response of a primary tumor (ypT0) after preoperative
therapy is associated with improved overall survival (OS). However, whether other variables …

Updated evidence on adjuvant treatments for gastric cancer

M Kanda, Y Kodera, J Sakamoto - Expert Review of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Gastric cancer is one of the main causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Even when
diagnosed as a localized disease and resected with the intent to cure, recurrences …

Conversion surgery for stage IV gastric cancer

F Zhang, X Huang, Y Song, P Gao, C Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The prognosis of stage IV gastric cancer (GC) is poor, with palliative chemotherapy
remaining the main therapeutic option. Studies increasingly indicate that patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Neo-adjuvant chemo (radio) therapy in gastric cancer: current status and future perspectives

A Biondi, MC Lirosi, D D'Ugo, V Fico… - World journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the last 20 years, several clinical trials on neoadjuvant chemotherapy and chemo-
radiotherapy as a therapeutic approach for locally advanced gastric cancer have been …