Gastric Cancer Surgery. How Significant is the Progress?

How Surgery Can Improve Multimodal Treatment of Gastric Cancer

Surgery is the only curative therapy for gastric cancer but most operable gastric cancer presents in a locally advanced stage characterized by tumor infiltration of the serosa or the presence of regional lymph node metastases. Surgery alone is no longer the standard treatment for locally advanced gastric cancer as the prognosis is markedly improved by perioperative chemotherapy. The decisive fa...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Progress of Photodynamic Therapy in Gastric Cancer

Progress of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in gastric cancer and the clinical outcome are described in this paper. (1) We included the whole lesion and a 5 mm margin in the field for irradiation. Marking by injection of India-ink showing the irradiation field was performed beforehand. (2) We established the standard light dose to be 90 J/cm(2) for an argon dye laser and 60 J/cm(2) for a pulse wave ...

How case reports have contributed to the progress of surgery

Editorial The now well-known Zollinger-Ellison syndrome was recognized by Professor Zollinger at Ohio State University and his student, Dr. Ellison, based on their insightful observations of two young women who suffered from refractory peptic ulcers requiring repeated surgery [1]. The index case for Kasabach-Merritt syndrome was a 2-month-old male infant who underwent radiation therapy for a hu...

Laparoscopic Surgery for Gastric Cancer

Even though an overall incidence of the gastric cancer has been declined it remains as the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths world widely with the highest incidence in Korea and Japan. [1] Over the past decade, however, the overall survival rate of patients with gastric cancer has been increased. This increased survival resulted from not only the early detection with an intensive su...