Learning curve in retroperitoneal sarcoma surgery.

Introduction: Retroperitoneal sarcoma (RPS) surgery poses unique challenges. This retrospective study aimed to analyze the learning curve (LC) in RPS surgery, assessing the relationship between surgical experience and outcomes.

Materials And Methods: Cumulative sum (CUSUM) analysis was used to analyze 62 RPS surgeries performed by a single surgeon between 2016 and 2022 at our center.

Neo-adjuvant chemo(radio)therapy in gastric cancer: Current status and future perspectives.

In the last 20 years, several clinical trials on neoadjuvant chemotherapy and chemo-radiotherapy as a therapeutic approach for locally advanced gastric cancer have been performed. Even if more data are necessary to define the roles of these approaches, the results of preoperative treatments in the combined treatment of gastric adenocarcinoma are encouraging because this approach has led to a higher rate of curative surgical resection. Owing to the results of most recent randomized phase III studies, neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced resectable gastric cancer has satisfied the determination of level I evidence.