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Would you recommend gastrectomy for a patient who has poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma in a resected gastric polyp?

Would chemotherapy alone suffice? Repeat biopsy and EUS were negative for residual disease.
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Medical Oncology · Duke University
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This is a difficult question to answer as there is more information that I would need. I assume that the patient had cross-sectional imaging that was negative for metastatic disease. Was the polyp removed in its entirety at the time of polypectomy? I assume that all margins were negative. Are we sur...

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