Effect of age on rates of palliative surgery and chemotherapy use in patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric cancer.

Stijn Diederik NelenM van PuttenV E P P LemmensK BosschaJ H W de WiltR H A Verhoeven

Published in: The British journal of surgery (2017)

Despite changes in the use of resection and chemotherapy as palliative treatment, overall survival rates of patients with advanced and metastatic gastric cancer did not improve.

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