JGCA Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines

Introduction to JGCA gastric cancer treatment guidelines

Guidelines for endoscopic submucosal dissection and endoscopic mucosal resection for early gastric cancer.

In response to the rapid and wide acceptance and use of endoscopic treatments for early gastric cancer, the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society (JGES), in collaboration with the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA), has produced 'Guidelines for ESD and EMR for Early Gastric Cancer', as a set of basic guidelines in accordance with the principles of evidence-based medicine. These Gu...

Macroscopic appearance of Type IV and giant Type III is a high risk for a poor prognosis in pathological stage II/III advanced gastric cancer with postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy

AIM To evaluate whether a high risk macroscopic appearance (Type IV and giant Type III) is associated with a dismal prognosis after curative surgery, because its prognostic relevance remains elusive in pathological stage II/III (pStage II/III) gastric cancer. METHODS One hundred and seventy-two advanced gastric cancer (defined as pT2 or beyond) patients with pStage II/III who underwent curati...

Gastric cancer staging with radiologic imaging modalities and UICC staging system.

There are two major stage classification systems for gastric cancer: the tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stages by the International Union against Cancer (UICC) and the Japanese Classification of Gastric Carcinoma by the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA). Preoperative stage classification using either of these systems is essential for deciding on the treatment strategy in the era of variou...

Comparison of five tumor regression grading systems for gastric adenocarcinoma after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: a retrospective study of 192 cases from National Cancer Center in China

BACKGROUND Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been increasingly practiced on gastric cancer (GC), and histological evaluation to predict outcome is urgent in clinical practice. There are five classic tumor regression grading (TRG) systems, including Mandard-TRG system, the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association (JGCA)-TRG system, College of American Pathologists (CAP)-TRG system, China-TRG system and Be...