The proposed therapeutic approach has shown to improve the survival and quality of life in SSTR positive patients with advanced HCC.

Self-expanding metallic stent placement is a palliative alternative to colostomy for patients with inoperable malignant colonic strictures. This treatment option provides a better quality of life for the patient, without the psychological repercussions of a colostomy, and it appears to be cost-effective.

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Although the impact of gastroscopy as a diagnostic tool in the patients of our study was of limited value, due to the nonspecific gross pattern of gastric MALT lymphomas, it should be maintained in the diagnostic intervention of the upper GI tract pathologies.

HSV-1 is frequent in upper gastro-intestinal tract ulcers but not in normal gastric and duodenal mucosa. There is an inverse association between HSV-1 and H pylori infection.