Progress in study on the treatment of gastric cancer with docetaxel / 中南大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

Gastric cancer is one of the most common malignant gastrointestinal tumors.Docetaxel alone or combination with other drugs can attenuate the progress of disease,prolong the overall response rate and the median overall survival rate in advanced gastric cancer.However,the incidence of toxicities is high.Moreover,there is no uniform standard for dosage and course for docetaxel treatment.Currently,its efficacy is not definite.