Patient survival after D1 and D2 resections for gastric cancer: long-term results of the MRC randomized surgical trial

the Surgical Co-operative Group, for; Cuschieri, A.; Weeden, Simon; W L Fielding, J; Bancewicz, J; Craven, John; Joypaul, V; R. Sydes, Matthew; Fayers, Peter

doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6690243

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Patient survival after D1 and D2 resections for gastric cancer: long-term results of the MRC randomized surgical trial

Published in British Journal of Cancer • Feb 26, 1999

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for the Surgical Co-operative Group

A. Cuschieri

Simon Weeden

Abstract

Controversy still exists on the optimal surgical resection for potentially curable gastric cancer. Much better long-term survival has been reported in retrospective/non-randomized studies with D2 resections that involve a radical extended regional lymphadenectomy than with the standard D1 resections...

Subject

Medicine

Randomized controlled trial

Cancer

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