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[Chemotherapy for human gastric cancer: a review]
G Demolin1, C Focan, O Plomteux
1Service d'Oncologie Médicale et Gastroentérologie, CHC Clinique Saint-Joseph, Liège, Belgique.
Abstract:
The authors review the actual position of medical treatment for human gastric cancer. Chemotherapy has been evaluated first in palliative situation, then as adjuvant post-surgical approach either through systemic or intraperitoneal route. Now chemotherapy may also be proposed as neoadjuvant (before surgery) treatment as part of an integrated global pluridisciplinary approach. New hopes to improve the prognosis come then from both neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy (+/- radiotherapy) and further from less toxic infusional therapies (chronomodulation), new schedules with proved active molecules (docetaxel, oxaliplatin, irinotecan, pemetrexed) as well as from new targeted treatments (against ie, EGF-receptor and angiogenesis).
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