Abstract:The work is devoted to the human immune system and state of immunity in patients after gastrectomy with splenectomy for gastric cancer. The gold standard of gastric cancer treatment is the surgical method with the use of extended lymphodissection D2. Often with proximal and total involvement of stomach, the removed block includes the spleen for better radicality. In the world literature, however, no common view of the necessity of splenectomy exists as later such patients develop immunodeficiency which can fur… Show more
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