Preoperative gastric lavage in gastric cancer patients undergoing surgical, endoscopic or minimally invasive treatment: an oncological measure preventing peritoneal spillage of intragastric cancer cells and development of related metastases

In addition to classical metastatic pathways, recently gastric cancer was described having an alternative route called “endoluminal exfoliation”. Provisional analyses demonstrated, in fact, this kind of shedding is associated with several clinico-pathological features indicative of aggressive behavior and resulted to be an independent prognostic factor entailing poor prognosis. Compared with non-sowing counterpa rts, in fact, patients affected with exfoliating early and advanced gastric carcinomas met with shorter overall survival, disease free survival, progression free survival and time to tumor progression.
Source: Medical Hypotheses - Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Source Type: research