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01-07-2012 | Editorial

To resect or not resect in metastatic gastric cancer: that is the question!

Author: Florian Lordick

Published in: Gastric Cancer | Issue 3/2012

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Last week we discussed 5 patients with gastric cancer at a meeting of our interdisciplinary tumor board. With the evidence we have and the recent publication of multidisciplinary treatment guidelines [1, 2] most decisions were easy to take and we achieved a great consensus with our colleagues from surgery and radiation oncology about our treatment standards. But one case concerned us a lot and we do not know yet if we took the right decision. …

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Title: To resect or not resect in metastatic gastric cancer: that is the question!
Author: Florian Lordick
Publication date: 01-07-2012
Publisher: Springer Japan
Published in: Gastric Cancer / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1436-3291
Electronic ISSN: 1436-3305
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10120-011-0136-z

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