Predictors and Prognostic Implications of Perioperative Chemotherapy Completion in Gastric Cancer.

Georgios KaragkounisMalcolm Hart SquiresMarcovalerio MelisGeorge A PoultsidesDavid WorhunskyLinda X JinRyan C FieldsGaya SpolveratoTimothy M PawlikKonstantinos I VotanopoulosEdward A LevineCarl SchmidtMark BloomstonClifford S ChoSharon WeberAntonio MasiRussell BermanH Leon PachterCharles A StaleyElliot NewmanShishir K MaithelIoannis Hatzaras

Published in: Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (2017)

Completion of perioperative chemotherapy was successful in two thirds of patients with gastric cancer and was independently associated with improved survival.

Keyphrases

cardiac surgery
patients undergoing
locally advanced
rectal cancer
free survival