Post written by Mohamed O. Othman, MD, from the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Section, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been used successfully for treating early gastric cancer. The Japanese Gastric Cancer association had previously published the standard criteria for ESD in early gastric cancer, which included non-ulcerated differentiated …
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Associate Editor, Dr. Lyndon Hernandez, MD, MPH, highlights this article from the January issue “Prior gastroscopy and mortality in patients with gastric cancer: a matched retrospective cohort study” by Wai K. Leung, MD, et al. This nationwide observational study (n=20,066) showed a reduction in cancer-related mortality among patients who underwent gastroscopy within 5 years before …
Continue reading Editor’s Choice: Prior gastroscopy and mortality in patients with gastric cancer
Post written by Wai K. Leung, MD, from the Department of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Gastric cancer is still the fifth most common cancer in the world with approximately one million new patients being diagnosed each year. Although upper endoscopy remains the gold standard for diagnosis of gastric cancer and pre-neoplastic …
Continue reading Prior gastroscopy and mortality in patients with gastric cancer
Post written by Kyu Yeon Hahn and Jun Chul Park from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea The focus of our study was to identify the incidence of recurrent lesions after endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for early gastric cancer (EGC) and to determine whether …
Joo Ha Hwang, MD, PhD, from the Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, USA reports on this Review article, "Screening and surveillance for gastric cancer in the United States: Is it needed?" This is a review article that examines the published data on risk factors for gastric cancer and methods for gastric …
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Eun Soo Kim, MD, PhD, from the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, in Daegu, South Korea describes this Original Article, "Comparison of quality of life and worry of cancer recurrence between endoscopic and surgical treatment for early gastric cancer." This cross-sectional study with questionnaires aimed to …
Andres Sanchez-Yague, MD, from Hospital Costa del Sol in Marbella, Spain shares this video case "'Unchaining' a stuck early gastric cancer by endoscopic submucosal dissection." A 67-year-old male with a past medical history of distal gastrectomy was diagnosed with a metachronous early gastric cancer at the cardia. The patient refused total gastrectomy and was referred to …
Chan Hyuk Park, MD and Jun Chul Park, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Institute of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University College of Medicine, in Seoul, Republic of Korea discuss this Original Article "Learning curve for EUS in gastric cancer T staging by using cumulative sum analysis." In our study, we …
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Chan Hyuk Park, MD and Jun Chul Park, MD from the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital, Institute of Gastroenterology at Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Republic of Korea discuss their article "Impact of carcinomatosis and ascites status on long-term outcomes of palliative treatment for patients with gastric outlet obstruction …
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Nikolas Eleftheriadis, MD from the Digestive Disease Center at Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital in Japan shares this video case "Acetic acid spray enhances accuracy of narrow-band imaging (NBI) magnifying endoscopy for endoscopic tissue characterization of early gastric cancer." In this video case we demonstrated a novel endoscopic technique using acetic acid chromoendoscopy in combination …
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