ABSTRACT: Introduction: Gastric cancer is the 4th most common malignancy and second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide, both its incidence and mortality have decreased over the past 70 ...

Background: Subtotal gastrectomy is frequently performed for distally located gastric tumors and carries a lower risk of postoperative complications compared to total gastrectomy. However, due to the ...

Surgery is often a cornerstone of treatment for gastric cancer, especially when the disease is localized and has not spread extensively beyond the stomach. The goal of surgery is to remove the cancer, ...

BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic surgery has been increasingly applied to gastric cancer surgery. Gastrointestinal tract reconstruction totally done by laparoscopy also has been a challenge for those who ...

Correspondence to Dr Takuji Yamada, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan; takuji{at}bio.titech.ac.jp; Professor Shinichi Yachida, Department of ...

IN a large tuberculosis hospital (615 beds) I have been impressed by the number of patients who have been admitted in the last few years with active pulmonary tuberculosis after subtotal gastrectomy ...

MANY surgeons have come to consider subtotal gastrectomy the procedure of choice for duodenal ulcers demanding elective operative therapy. The results of this maneuver are gratifying in most cases.

Surgery for stomach cancer is done by specialist surgeons. It is not available in all hospitals, so you may need to travel to a hospital further away to have the operation. The operation you have ...

According to the Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) data, there were 19.3 million incidence of cancer cases worldwide for the year 2020. India ranked third after China and the United States of ...

Treatment of stomach cancer (also known as gastric cancer) depends largely on where the cancer is in the stomach and how far it has spread. But other factors, such as a person’s age, overall health, ...

2 Study Center of the German Society of Surgery, Heidelberg, Germany Introduction The only curative treatment for most gastric cancer is radical gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy (LAD). Minimally ...