Long-term Survival Outcomes of Advanced Gastric Cancer Patients Who Achieved a Pathological Complete Response with Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Systematic Review of the Literature

摘要

Background. A pathologic complete response (pCR) can sometimes be induced by intensive or long-term neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). This prognostic research study based on a systematic review of the literature evaluated the impact of a pCR on the long-term survival of gastric cancer (GC) patients.