CHICAGO—The rates of adequate lymphadenectomy are improving for patients with gastric adenocarcinoma, according to a new study.
“Gastric cancer is still the fourth most common cancer in the world, with 1 million newly diagnosed cancers every year. Almost 800,000 die of the disease every year,” said co-primary investigator Felipe Maegawa, MD, MS, of the Department of Surgery at Emory University, in Atlanta. “There have been better chemotherapy regimens