Safety and Limitations of Laparoscopic Total Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: A Comparative Analysis of Short and Long-term Outcomes With Open Surgery.

Background/aim: Laparoscopic gastrectomy is a standard treatment strategy for gastric cancer (GC); however, the clinical impact of laparoscopic total gastrectomy (LTG) on survival outcomes remains unclear. We compared the short- and long-term results of LTG with those of open total gastrectomy (OTG).

Patients And Methods: Patients undergoing total gastrectomy with lymph node dissection for Stage I/II/III GC between 2010 and 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.

Clinical Impact of Laparoscopic Surgery on the Long-term Survival of Advanced Gastric Cancer Patients With Regard to Facilitating Doublet Adjuvant Chemotherapy.

Background/aim: The impact of laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG), a standard gastric cancer (GC) management strategy, in advanced GC cases involving doublet adjuvant chemotherapy remains unclear. This study was aimed at comparing short- and long-term LG and open gastrectomy (OG) results.

Patients And Methods: Patients who underwent gastrectomy with D2 lymph node dissection for stage II/III GC between 2013 and 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.

[Locally Advanced Gastric Cancer Showing Marked Tumor Shrinkage after the First Dose of Nivolumab for Fourth-Line Chemotherapy].

We report a case of locally advanced gastric cancer, which showed marked tumor shrinkage after the first dose of nivolumab. A 75-year-old woman was diagnosed with locally advanced gastric cancer with pancreatic invasion and pyloric stenosis. We performed gastrojejunostomy before chemotherapy.