A systematic review of surgery for non-curative gastric cancer

Gastric Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages

  Mahar, Alyson L ^a,b   Coburn, Natalie G ^a,c   Singh, Simron ^c   Law, Calvin ^c   Helyer, Lucy K ^d  

^a Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced disease; Non curative; Palliative; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; CANCER STAGING; GASTRECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84873471477     PISSN: 14363291     EISSN: 14363305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10120-011-0088-3     Document Type: Review

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