Function-preserving surgery in gastric cancer: current evidence and implications for the West
Pietro Santocchi, Annamaria Agnes, Alberto Biondi · 2025
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Pietro Santocchi, Annamaria Agnes, and Alberto Biondi review gentler stomach cancer surgery in this 2025 survey. Standard surgery removes much of the stomach, hurting nutrition and life quality. East Asian centers, which catch the cancer early more often, widely use function-keeping variants that spare the stomach's outlet or top.
In well-picked early cases, survival matches standard surgery, the review finds. Drawbacks like food stasis and reflux have spurred new joinery tricks. Western uptake lags for want of early cases, training, and guideline backing. Rising care centralization revives interest, the authors say, and even advanced cases may gain short-term benefits.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pietro Santocchi, Annamaria Agnes, Alberto Biondi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 53 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |