Radiation Oncology

Gastric Cancer   

Questions discussed in this category


What were your “top 3” presentations/studies coming out of the meeting this year and how will it impact your own clinical practice? ...

If so, what dose-fractionation regimen do you utilize? What are your target volumes?

CheckMate 577 only included patients with R0 resection.For R1 resections, guidelines suggest observation vs re-resection only.  

Is there such thing a definitive radiotherapy in this setting, or would this be a purely palliative approach? If you would treat, what would your targ...

Does the lack of D2 dissection automatically necessitate adjuvant chemoradiation therapy (ie <5 LN obtained)? Would the presence of high risk facto...

Will you treat only the anastamosis and remnant stomach without elective nodal RT, or will you include elective nodal RT in your treatment fields, ass...

We use PET for esophageal, but not gastric cancer. GE junction seems like a grey area. 

Does the advent of FLOT in gastric cancers, change your approach to GE adeno's? Would anyone consider FLOT followed by chemoradition followed by surge...


Papers discussed in this category


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BMC Cancer, 2015-07-21

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Annals of surgical oncology, 2016-11

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Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2012-07-01

J. Clin. Oncol., 2016-08-10

Lancet Oncol., 2014-07-01

Ann. Oncol., 2014-07-01

J. Clin. Oncol., 2015-10-01

J Clin Oncol, 2012 Jan 20

International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 2005-12-01

Lancet,

Cancer,

Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2005-02-20

Lancet Oncol., 2018 Apr 09

Lancet, 2019 Apr 11

Ann. Surg. Oncol., 2017 Mar 23

Ann Oncol, 2020 Nov 20

N Engl J Med, 2021-04-01

Annals of surgery, 2009-05

J Gastrointest Surg, 2011 Sep 22

The New England journal of medicine, 2013-10-31

N. Engl. J. Med.,

Lancet, 2021 Jun 05

Eur J Cancer, 2018 Aug 24

NEJM Evidence, 2022 Jun 1