Laparoscopic gastrectomy and personal genomics: High-volume surgeons and predictive biomedicine may govern the future for resectable gastric cancer

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 650-651

  Roukos, Dimitrios H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; BIOMEDICINE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EUROPE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JAPAN; KOREA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY ASSISTED DISTAL GASTRECTOMY; LETTER; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STOMACH CANCER; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

COMORBIDITY; FORECASTING; GASTRECTOMY; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 70349705655     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181b970dd     Document Type: Letter

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