[Strategy for the treatment of Stage IV gastric cancer with preoperative chemotherapy].

In 2007, we began using neoadjuvant chemotherapy for the treatment of Stage IV gastric cancer and then performing R0/1 surgery in patients in whom chemotherapy was effective. Here, we evaluate the use of this therapeutic strategy combining chemotherapy and surgery for the treatment of Stage IV gastric cancer. The subjects of our investigation were 46 patients with Stage IV gastric cancer treated from 2007 through 2012.