The relation between postoperative surgical complications and gastric cancer survival

摘要

Gastric cancer had 951,600 new cancer cases and 723,100 deaths occurred in 2012 1) . Complete resection is essential for the cure of localized gastric cancer. At pres- ent, the standard treatments for locally advanced gastric cancer in Asia, Europe and the United States are D2 gastrectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, surgery with pre- and postoperative chemotherapy, and surgery with postoperative chemoradiotherapy, respectively 2-6) . Although complete resection is essential for the cure of gastric cancer, the incidence of postoperative complica- tions rate after gastric cancer surgery has been reported to be 20-30%. Recent studies for gastrointestinal cancers have demonstrated that the development of postopera- tive complications decreased the patient’s survival or increased the risk of disease recurrence 7, 8) .