Abstract:The results of the standard therapy of upper gastrointestinal tract cancer remain unsatisfactory, mainly because still the majority of cases are diagnosed at a late stage of disease, which implicates a poor prognosis. Innovative strategies focus on neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced gastric cancer and chemo- or radiochemotherapy in advanced oesophageal cancer. Results of phase II studies published so far have been promising. There is rising evidence that adjuvant radiochemotherapy in gastric cancer m… Show more
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