Abstract:Background: Gastric cancer is a complex disease and the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. To date, surgery remains the only curative strategy in locally advanced gastric cancer (LAGC) patients (pt), although the results of the MAGIC trial supported the implementation of a perioperative treatment (ttx) with epirubicincisplatin-5FU (ECF). Since 2019, the FLOT4-AIO trial showed that perioperative 5FUleucovorin-oxaliplatin-docetaxel (FLOT) improved median overall survival (mOS) compared to ECF. We ai… Show more
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