2009
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21389
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Early gallbladder cancer: Is further treatment necessary?

Abstract: Early gallbladder cancer is associated with a favorable prognosis and cholecystectomy should be the standard treatment. Despite some patients having a worse prognosis, there are no data to support more aggressive treatment.

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“…7 Similarly, de Aretxabala et al also noted a worse actuarial survival among patients undergoing surgical resection for tumors classified as AJCC 7th edition T3/T4 disease. 5, 29 Collectively, results from the current study and previous reports highlight the ability of using certain risk factors to classify patients into different prognostic subgroups thereby aiding in patient and provider decision making.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 57%
“…7 Similarly, de Aretxabala et al also noted a worse actuarial survival among patients undergoing surgical resection for tumors classified as AJCC 7th edition T3/T4 disease. 5, 29 Collectively, results from the current study and previous reports highlight the ability of using certain risk factors to classify patients into different prognostic subgroups thereby aiding in patient and provider decision making.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 57%
“…However, the view on T1b tumors is not so clear. While some authors have suggested that a simple cholecystectomy is sufficient in such patients [4,5] , we [6] and others [7] , have found evidence of lymph node metastases in these patients as well as disease in the gallbladder fossa (even up to 35%) [5,6] . This seems to indicate that performing a lymphadenectomy with excision of at least a wedge of liver tissue from segments 4b and 5 seems to be prudent [8] , the benefit of which needs to be studied in prospective randomized studies.…”
Section: T1 Stagementioning
confidence: 45%
“…Entre las que destacan la indicación de la colecistectomía extendida en tumores pT1a y pT1b1 y asociado a esto, el rol de los SRA (Roa et al, 2013); el rol de la colecistectomía extendida en pacientes con invasión de la serosa o más allá de ésta (de Aretxabala, et al, 2009;Manterola et al, 2010); la utilidad de la quimio radioterapia (de Aretxabala, et al, 1999;de Aretxabala, et al, 2009;Lee et al, 2012a); etc.…”
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