gastrointestinal disorders
Stomach Cancer
Prognosis for Stomach Cancer
 5 to 15%) because most patients present with advanced disease. Median overall survival in well-selected patients after perioperative chemotherapy and surgery can be as high as 50 months based on modern randomized trials ( Prognosis references , Gastric lymphomas have a better prognosis (see Hodgkin Lymphoma and 1.Cunningham D, Allum WH, Stenning SP, et al: Perioperative chemotherapy versus surgery alone for resectable gastroesophageal cancer.N Engl J Med355(1):11-20, 2006. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa055531 2.Al-Batran SE, Homann N, Pauligk C, et al: Perioperative chemotherapy withfluorouracilplusleucovorin,oxaliplatin, anddocetaxelversusfluorouracilorcapecitabinepluscisplatinandepirubicinfor locally advanced, resectable gastric or gastro-oesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (FLOT4): A randomised, phase 2/3 trial.Lancet393(10184):1948-1957, 2019. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32557-1 3.Zhang J, Zhou Y, Jiang K, et al: Evaluation of the seventh AJCC TNM staging system for gastric cancer: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.Tumour Biol35(9):8525-8532, 2014. doi: 10.1007/s13277-014-1848-6 