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In what situations do you recommend preoperative chemoradiation for gastric cancer?

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Radiation Oncology · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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I very rarely use preoperative radiation therapy in true gastric cancer. The data on RT in gastric cancer is mostly postoperative RT. In the past I have used RT for the rare distal lesion that was not resectable without a Whipple to try to convert the tumor to resectable. Even in that situation, I w...

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