Outcomes of Proximal Versus Total Gastrectomy for Proximal Gastric Cancer: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of a Western Center Experience.

Proximal gastrectomy is applicable to patients up to stage 3 disease, with no difference in overall survival, with caution in early complications and reflux esophagitis. Among all demographic and oncological factors, lymphovascular invasion and resection margin were significantly associated with worse survival.