TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Palliation Of Incurable Gastric Cancer A1 - Fahy, Bridget N. A2 - Morita, Shane Y. A2 - Balch, Charles M. A2 - Klimberg, V. Suzanne A2 - Pawlik, Timothy M. A2 - Posner, Mitchell C. A2 - Tanabe, Kenneth K. PY - 2018 T2 - Textbook of Complex General Surgical Oncology AB - Gastric cancer remains a leading cause of cancer death worldwide. It is estimated that 26,370 people will be diagnosed with gastric cancer in the United States in 2013.1 Unfortunately, only 25% of patients present with localized disease, while 30% present with regional disease and 34% have distant disease at the time of diagnosis.2 Therefore, only a small percentage of patients with gastric cancer present with potentially curable disease. For the remainder of patients, the options are noncurative resection or chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy. Given this low rate of curative disease, it is critical for surgeons to be knowledgeable about management options for these patients when cure is not possible. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/13 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1145761778 ER -