Prediction Of The Peritoneal Recurrence By Macroscopic Diagnosis Of The Serosal Invasion In Gastric Cancer: Supplementary Analysis Of Jcog0110 Study

The indication for postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer is determined based on the pathological diagnosis. However, several investigators have reported that serosal invasion diagnosed macroscopically during surgery is superior to pathological diagnosis for the prediction of peritoneal recurrence. In order to seek more sensitive predictive factors for peritoneal recurrence, predictability of peritoneal recurrence and survival by serosal invasion diagnosed macroscopically during surgery (sT) and diagnosed pathologically (pT) were investigated.