International consensus on the management of metastatic gastric cancer: step by step in the foggy landscape : Bertinoro Workshop, November 2022.
Paolo MorgagniMaria BencivengaFatima CarneiroStefano CascinuSarah DerksMaria Di BartolomeoClaire DonohoeClarisse EvenoSuzanne GisbertzPeter GrimmingerInes GockelHeike GrabshPaulo KassabRupert LangerSara LonardiMarco MaltoniSheraz MarkarMarkus MoehlerDaniele MarrelliMaria Antonietta MazzeiDavide MelisiCarlo MilandriPaul Stefan MoenigBianca MostertGianni MuraWojciech PolkowskiJohn ReynoldsLuca SaragoniMark I Van Berge HenegouwenRichard Van HillegersbergMichael ViethGiuseppe VerlatoLorena TorroniBas WijnhovenGuido Alberto Massimo TiberioHan-Kwang YangFranco RovielloGiovanni de ManzoniPublished in: Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (2024)
As assessed at the time of diagnosis, surgical treatment of oligometastases should aim at R0 curativity on the entire disease volume, including both the primary tumor and its metastases. Conversion surgery was defined as surgery on the residual volume of disease, which was initially not resectable for technical and/or oncological reasons but nevertheless responded to first-line treatment.