Neoadjuvant chemotherapy combined with laparoscopic surgery for treatment of advanced gastric cancer: Efficacy and impact on quality of life

Neoadjuvant therapy in gastric cancer: Current status and future perspectives

Gastric cancer (GC) remains one of the most common tumors in China. Most patients with GC in China are already in a locally advanced stage at the time of diagnosis. Neoadjuvant therapy has attracted increasing attention. Clinical literature and meta-analyses show that neoadjuvant therapy results in a significant survival benefit for resectable locally advanced GC, and preoperative chemoradiotherapy also should be a standard treatment for advanced GC vs surgery alone. The optimal regimens of neoadjuvant therapy and comparisons between preoperative chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy still need to be studied further.