Tumors of the Small Bowel
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Despite its length and surface area, the small bowel accounts for less than 5% of all gastrointestinal cancers, and has a malignancy rate 50-fold lower than…
Prophylactic Gastrectomy For Inherited Gastric Cancer
EPIDEMIOLOGY Print Section Listen Gastric cancer is the fourth most common malignancy worldwide and the second most common cause of cancer-related death.1 Histologically, gastric cancer may be classified as either…
Duodenal Cancer (Including Intestinal Type Ampullary Cancer)
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,…
Special Operative and Multimodal Therapy Considerations in EGJ Cancer Care: Western Viewpoints
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…
Sentinel Node Navigation Surgery for Early Gastric Cancer
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…
Palliation Of Incurable Gastric Cancer
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…
Multimodality Therapy of Gastric Cancer: Eastern Experience
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…
Multimodality Therapy of Gastric Cancer: Western Experience
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…
Transhiatal Esophagectomy
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…
Surgical and Multimodality Treatments of Cancers at the Esophagogastric Junction: The Eastern Perspective
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…
