Colon cancer continues to be one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity throughout the world despite the availability of reliable screening tools and effective therapies.The majority of patients with colon c...
BACKGROUND Malnourishment and sarcopenia are well documented phenomena in oesophageal cancer.Patients undergoing neo-adjuvant chemotherapy prior to oesophagectomy have complex nutritional needs.AIM To examine the effe...
Although radical gastrectomy is a standard treatment for advanced gastric cancer,recurrence remains high.After several large-scale controlled studies have shown the beneficial effects of adjuvant chemotherapy,that tre...
In patients affected by gastric cancer(GC), especially those in advanced stage, the multidisciplinary app-roach of treatment is fundamental to obtain a good disease control and quality of life. Although many chemother...
AIM To provide evidence regarding the postoperative treatment of patients with T4 b N1-3 M0/Tx N3 b M0 gastric cancer, for which guidelines have not been established. METHODS Patients who had undergone curative resect...
Supported by the Sault Ste.Marie Academic Medical Association,Ontario,Canada to Voutsadakis IA
AIM To investigate if pre-treatment platelet counts could provide prognostic information in patients with rectal adenocarcinoma that received neo-adjuvant treatment. METHODS Platelet number on diagnosis of stage II an...
The discrepancy between the surgical technique and the type of adjuvant chemotherapy used in clinical trials and patient outcomes in terms of overall survival rates has led to the generation of different adjuvant trea...
In the last 20 years, several clinical trials on neoadjuvant chemotherapy and chemo-radiotherapy as a therapeutic approach for locally advanced gastric cancer have been performed. Even if more data are necessary to de...
Adenocarcinoma of the stomach carries a poor prognosis and is the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide. It is recommended that surgical resection with a D1 or a modified D2 gastrectomy(with at least 15 l...
Supported by The Khon Kaen University Publication Clinic,Research
AIM: To evaluate outcomes in resectable cholangiocarcinoma patients and to determine prognostic factors. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted among newly-diagnosed cholangiocarcinoma patients from January 2009...