background: today the use of laparoscopy before laparotomy is an effective method for decision-making in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma. the reliance on ct scans for decision-making purposes is not only unhelpful, yet also misleading . nonetheless, indications for laparoscopy and its application are changing daily. the low quality of diagnostic tools and epidemiological situation in our c...

cancer of the stomach carries poor prognosis. surgery is the best treatment for gastric cancer. prediction of survival depends on the stage at the time of presentation. fluoroscopy, sonography, and computerized tomography are used for advanced gastric cancers staging, but they are not accurate enough to grade advanced gastric cancers. laparoscopic findings of lesions under direct vision, are ma...

Background & Aims: Gastric cancer is the second common cancer in Iran and it has unfortunately no diagnostic signs in early stages. Considering the role of genetic and environmental factors in the development of gastric cancer, this study aimed at evaluating DNA-content of stomach cells in patients with gastric cancer in order to find a reliable index for prediction of disease prognosis and pro...

introduction: c - reactive protein (crp) is an acute-phase plasma protein that can be used as a marker of activation of the immune system. in response to several inflammatory reactions,the concentration of crp increases and recently have been applicated as a cancer detector in some studies. we aimed to evaluate the relation between crp level and the staging and grading of gastric and colon mali...

PURPOSE We validate the 7th American Joint Committee on Cancer/Union for International Cancer Control (AJCC/UICC) staging system for gastric cancer and propose a new staging system that reflects the prognostic significances of each of T and N category. METHODS Data from 5,957 patients who underwent curative gastrectomies from 2000 to 2007 at 4 university hospitals in Daegu Metropolitan city i...

The only potential curative therapy for gastric cancer is the resection of both the tumor and the regional lymph nodes at the early stage of the disease. The majority of patients with gastric cancer in Malaysia have an advanced disease at initial diagnosis, and curative surgery is possible in less than 20% of operated cases. Acurate preoperative staging is crucial in determining the most suitab...

recently, reports have shown that gastric cancer has high abundance in iran and is at the second level in men, and fourth in total. this study aimed to determine the 5-year survival of gastric cancer patients and to investigate factors affecting the performance, based on tnm-7 staging system. in this study, we investigated 760 patients with gastric cancer since the beginning of 1993 to the end ...

INTRODUCTION Positron emission tomography (PET) is a mainstay in the preoperative evaluation of various cancers. In gastric cancer however, its role in the initial staging remains contentious. Presented is a case series of three gastric patients wherein the use of fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT (computer tomography) as part of the initial staging was inconsequential to treatment, demonstra...

PURPOSE The utility of N classification has been questioned after the 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)/Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) was published. We evaluated the correlation between ratio-based N (rN) classification with the overall survival of pathological T4 gastric cancer patients who underwent D2 lymphadenectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We revi...