Abstract:Adjuvant S-1 monotherapy is the standard of care for stage II gastric cancer (GC) after curative resection in Japan, but its efficacy for microsatellite instability–high (MSI-H) tumors has remained unknown. Among a multi-institutional cohort of patients with stage II GC who underwent R0 resection followed by S-1 adjuvant chemotherapy between February 2008 and December 2018, we assessed MSI status with an MSI-IVD Kit (Falco). MSI status was assessable for 184 (88.5%) of the 208 enrolled patients, with MSI-H bei… Show more
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