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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-9
pubmed:abstractText
Gastric cancer chemotherapy has entered a new era with the introduction of new drugs such as S-1, irinotecan (CPT-11), paclitaxel and docetaxel. Recent phase III studies have indicated that S-1 monotherapy, a remnant reference arm from a previous study, was not inferior to 5-FU alone, and that the combination of S-1 with cisplatin and CPT-11 showed higher efficacy than S-1 alone with tolerable side-effects for advanced and recurrent gastric cancer. In the adjuvant setting, S-1 monotherapy prolonged survival following surgery compared with surgery alone after curative extended (D2) lymph-node dissection for stage II/III gastric cancer. However, some issues remain, such as the sequence of several duplet chemotherapies, treatment following cases of S-1 failure, the relative efficacy of doublet and triplet therapies, and the impact of molecular-targeting.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0258-851X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
273-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
New chemotherapy strategies for gastric cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Comprehensive and Advanced Medicine, Keio University Hospital, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan. tkubota@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review