BACKGROUND Print Section Listen Periampullary cancers encompass a mixture of cancers but in general are separated into four subtypes: cancer in the head of the pancreas, distal bile duct cancer,…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Management of Esophago-Gastric Junction (EGJ) cancer with locoregional disease is an area of ongoing discussion and debate, since there is a paucity of randomized trials focusing…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Many patients with early gastric cancer are currently treated with advanced laparoscopic gastrectomy procedures, such as laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) and laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy, in many…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Gastric cancer remains a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. It is estimated that 26,370 people will be diagnosed with gastric cancer in the United States…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Several bodies of evidence both from the West and the East currently recommend that some form of adjuvant therapy should be delivered in addition to surgery…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Gastric cancer remains one of the most common malignancies and a high cause of mortality worldwide. In the United States and the Western world, the incidence…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Surgery, either alone or in combination with other therapeutic options (chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy), remains an essential component of a multimodality approach to midstage esophageal cancer and…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The incidence of gastric adenocarcinoma in the East is much higher than in the West; the main etiology is Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection. However, in…
BACKGROUND AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Print Section Listen Gastric cancer is a global health problem with an estimated one million new cases diagnosed a year.1 It is the third and fifth leading…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen As the technology continues to evolve, endoscopy has become not only an imaging modality but also a therapeutic instrument as one of the minimally invasive treatment…
