Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

At present, most of patients diagnosed as gastric cancer with clinical therapy belong to ad- vanced stage in China; The patients in early stage are relatively few. While patients in advanced stage have poor prognosis in general and low rate of curative resection. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer can obtain downstaging, increase rate of curative resections, and has the possibility of improving sur- vival. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy might be an effective and feasible therapeutic method for advanced gastric cancer.