Surgical treatment of intermediate-stage gastric cancer
Iwanaga, T.; Furukawa, H.; Hiratsuka, M.
Gan no Rinsho. Japan Journal of Cancer Clinics 32(10): 1195-1202
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0021-4949 PMID: 3783950 Document Number: 268436
Gastric cancers for which either the invasion depth of the stomach wall layers is moderate or the extent of lymph node metastasis is moderate were defined as carcinomas of intermediate-stage. In consideration of the clinico-pathological characteristics of these intermediate-stage gastric cancers, the therapeutic methods for the cancers were studied. It was concluded that since intermediate-stage gastric cancer is a kind of advanced cancers, the most desirable surgical approach will be a radical surgical operation and an adequate adjuvant therapy.