Does the surgical stress associated with palliative resection for patients with incurable gastric cancer with distant metastasis shorten their survival?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 51, Issue 57, 2004, Pages 872-875

  Moriwaki, Yoshihiro ^a,b   Kunisaki, Chikara ^a   Kobayashi, Syunsuke ^a   Harada, Hirofumi ^a   Imai, Shinsuke ^a   Kasaoka, Chitaka ^a  

^a Fujisawa City Hospital   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservative therapy; Incurable gastric cancer; Long term survival; Palliative resection; Stage migration with time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH CANCER; STRESS; SURVIVAL RATE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; STRESS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2342449959     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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