Paolo Sammartino, Giovanni De Manzoni, Luigi Marano, Daniele Marrelli, Daniele Biacchi, Antonio Sommariva, Stefano Scaringi, Orietta Federici, Marcello Guaglio, Marco Angrisani, Maurizio Cardi, Alessia Fassari, Francesco Casella, Luigina Graziosi, Franco Roviello
Gastric cancer (GC) continues to be one of the leading types of malignancies worldwide, despite an ongoing decrease in incidence. It is the fifth most frequent type of cancer in the world and the fourth leading cause of cancer death. Peritoneal metastases (PMs) occur in 20-30% of cases during the natural history of the disease. Systemic chemotherapy (SC) is undoubtedly the standard of care for patients with GC and PMs. However, with the development of highly effective regimens (SC combined with intraperitoneal chemotherapy), significant tumor shrinkage has been observed in many patients with synchronous GC and PMs, allowing some to undergo curative resection "conversion surgery" with long-term survival...
June 10, 2023: Cancers