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Advanced gastric cancer: Current treatment landscape and future perspectives.
World journal of gastroenterology - 28 Feb 2016
Digklia Antonia, Wagner Anna Dorothea
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer currently ranks fourth in cancer-related mortality worldwide. In the western world, it is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage, after becoming metastatic at distant sites. Patients with advanced disease (locally advanced or metastatic) have a somber prognosis, with a median overall survival of 10-12 mo, and palliative chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment. In recent years, novel approaches...
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