Chemoradiotherapy or chemotherapy as adjuvant treatment for resected gastric cancer: should we use selection criteria?

Houyem MansouriZemni InesLeila AchouriNajet MahjoubMohamed Ali AyediInes Ben SaftaTarek Ben DhiabRiadh CharguiKhaled Rahal

Published in: Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology (2021)

There is a particular survival benefit of adding radiotherapy to chemotherapy in patients with selected criteria such as lymph node involvement, high LNR LVI, and PNI.

Keyphrases

locally advanced
lymph node
neoadjuvant chemotherapy
rectal cancer
squamous cell carcinoma
early stage
radiation therapy
sentinel lymph node
prognostic factors