Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Local Advanced Gastric Cancer

Abstract

Background: Gastric cancer remains a major cause of cancer death in Iran despite a significant decreasing inci-dence in western countries. Surgery alone has not been effective for treatment of locoregional gastric cancer be-cause of the low rate of curative resection and high incidence of local recurrence and distant metastases. Our aim was to determine the resectability of tumor after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.