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[Problems for the conversion therapy in advanced gastric cancer]
1Department of Surgical Oncology, the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China.
Abstract:
Patients with advanced gastric cancer have a poor prognosis, which remains the clinical concerned hot topic. The main previous treatments for advanced gastric cancer were adjuvant chemotherapy and palliative surgery, however, the application of conversion therapy has improved the survival in recent years. There are still many problems and challenges for conversion therapy because of its initial stage, such as the definition of advanced gastric cancer and conversion therapy, the selection of suitable population for conversion therapy, and the role of surgery in conversion therapy. Precision medicine will be applied to conversion therapy for advanced gastric cancer in the future, which would benefit more patients.
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