Dimitrios Raptis, Matthias Maak, Christian Krautz, Susanne Merkel, Maximilian Brunner, Abbas Agaimy, Arndt Hartmann, Sabine Semrau, Oliver Ott, Fietkau Rainer, Jürgen Siebler, Robert Grützmann, Werner Hohenberger, Claus-Wilhelm Schildberg
INTRODUCTION: Gastric cancer remains the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in Europe, while the proportion of adenocarcinomas of the esophagogastric junction has risen by more than one third over recent years. In 2018, 14,700 new cases of gastric cancer were estimated in Germany, while the 5-year relative survival rate is reported to be 33% for women and 30% for men; in the USA almost the same rate was reported, with 31% 5-year survival. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Between 2001 and 2014, 590 patients with a diagnosis of gastric cancer underwent surgery in our institution, including 120 Siewert type II/III carcinomas of the esophagogastric junction...
2024: Archives of Medical Science: AMS