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Optimizing the Choice for Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Gastric Cancer.

Antonino GrassadoniaAntonella De LucaErminia CarlettiPatrizia ViciFrancesca Sofia Di LisaLorena FilomenoGiuseppe CiceroLaura De LellisSerena VeschiRosalba FlorioDavide BroccoSaverio AlbertiAlessandro CamaNicola Tinari

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adjuvant chemotherapypredictive factorCancer ResearchOncologygastric cancerprognostic factors.

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Advances in the management of gastric cancer have improved patient survival in the last decade. Nonetheless, the number of patients relapsing and dying after a diagnosis of localized gastric cancer is still too high, even in early stages (10% in stage I). Adjuvant systemic chemotherapy has been proven to significantly improve outcomes. In the present article we have critically reviewed the clinical trials that guide the current clinical practice in the adjuvant treatment of patients affected by resectable gastric cancer, focusing on the different approaches worldwide, i.e., adjuvant chemotherapy, adjuvant chemoradiotherapy, and perioperative chemotherapy. We also delineate the clinical–pathological characteristics that are commonly taken into account to identify patients at a higher risk of recurrence and requiring adjuvant chemotherapy, and also describe novel biomarkers and therapeutic agents that might allow personalization of the treatment.

10.3390/cancers14194670https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36230592