Multimodality Treatments in Metastatic Gastric Cancer

Gastric cancer represents one of the most frequent and lethal tumors worldwide today finding itself in the fifth place in incidence and the third in mortality. Surgery remains the only curative treatment for localized tumors but only 20% of patients are suitable for surgery due to the lack of specific symptoms and the late diagnosis especially in Western countries. Additionally even in patients who receive curative treatment rates of locoregional relapse and distant metastasis remain high. Palli...See More