Pathological complete response from oral chemotherapy combined with trans-arterial chemotherapy and embolization in an unresectable gastric cancer patient
Abstract:Rationale:
Gastric cancer is still one of the most common cancer in East Asia. More than 70% gastric cancer patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage in China. Moreover, about 10% cases are unresectable which usually suffer a poor prognosis with a median survival time of 5 to 12 months. In recent years, some clinical studies found that many unresectable gastric cancer cases could get opportunity for surgery after treatment that improve prognosis significantly
Patient concerns:
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