J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 91(9): 1371-1374, 1990

Report on the annual meeting

POSTSURGICAL LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP STUDIES AND MULTI DISCIPLINALY TREATMENT FOR GASTRIC CANCER

Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Koichiro Kumai, Kenichiro Aizawa, Ichiro Uyama, Tetsuro Kubota, Keiichi Yoshino, Kyuya Ishibiki, Osahiko Abe

The postsurgical survival curves of the 1807 patients grouping into histological stage classification (stages I-IV) showed statistically significant differences.
Multi disciplinaly treatment for gastric cancer consisted of surgery and adjuvant immunochemotherapy contributed to improve the postsurgical survival rates in stage I and II patients, but such contribution was not observed in stages III and IV.
Subclassification of patients should be used in stages I and Stage IV to establish a reliable treatment, as stage Ia, Ib and Stage IVa, IVb.
Surgery should depend on this subclassification of staging, and new effective adjuvant therapy will be expected to develop.

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