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State-of-the-Art Research on Gastric Cancer Surgery

A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2025) | Viewed by 846

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Georgios D. Lianos

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Department of Surgery, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
Interests: surgical oncology; gastric cancer; colon cancer; minimally invasive surgery; emergency surgery
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Dr. Dimitrios Schizas

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First Department of Surgery, Laikon General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Interests: esophageal cancer; gastric cancer; pancreatic cancer; immunotherapy; personalized medicine; surgery; medical education
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our upcoming Special Issue titled "State-of-the-Art Research on Gastric Cancer Surgery". This Special Issue will focus on advancements in personalized surgical oncology, highlighting the significance of tailored treatment strategies in improving patient outcomes. Gastric cancer surgery is evolving rapidly with the introduction of minimally invasive techniques, innovative non-invasive biomarkers, and next-generation sequencing analyses.

This Special Issue will explore various aspects of gastric cancer surgery, including the concept of total mesogastric excision, gastric juice analyses, anastomoses with indocyanine control, and lymph node mapping. Additionally, we will cover innovative technical issues that enhance surgical precision and patient care.

We welcome original research articles and reviews in areas such as personalized surgical oncology, minimally invasive techniques, innovative non-invasive biomarkers, gastric juice analyses, total mesogastric excision concept, anastomoses with indocyanine control, lymph node mapping, next-generation sequencing analyses, and other related topics.

We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions to this Special Issue, which will advance the field of gastric cancer surgery and provide a comprehensive resource for clinicians and researchers.

Dr. Georgios D. Lianos
Dr. Dimitrios Schizas
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • personalized surgical oncology
  • minimally invasive techniques
  • innovative non-invasive biomarkers
  • gastric juice analyses
  • total mesogastric excision
  • indocyanine green (ICG) anastomoses
  • lymph node mapping
  • next-generation sequencing
  • surgical innovation
  • gastric cancer treatment

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Predictive Factors Aiding in the Estimation of Intraoperative Resources in Gastric Cancer Oncologic Surgery
by Alexandru Blidișel, Mihai-Cătălin Roșu, Andreea-Adriana Neamțu, Bogdan Dan Totolici, Răzvan-Ovidiu Pop-Moldovan, Andrei Ardelean, Valentin-Cristian Iovin, Ionuț Flaviu Faur, Cristina Adriana Dehelean, Sorin Adalbert Dema and Carmen Neamțu
Cancers 2025, 17(12), 2038; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17122038 - 18 Jun 2025
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Background/Objectives: Operating rooms represent valuable and pivotal units of any hospital. Therefore, their management affects healthcare service delivery through rescheduling, staff shortage/overtime, cost inefficiency, and patient dissatisfaction, among others. To optimize scheduling, we aim to assess preoperative evaluation criteria that influence the prediction [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Operating rooms represent valuable and pivotal units of any hospital. Therefore, their management affects healthcare service delivery through rescheduling, staff shortage/overtime, cost inefficiency, and patient dissatisfaction, among others. To optimize scheduling, we aim to assess preoperative evaluation criteria that influence the prediction of surgery duration for gastric cancer (GC) patients. In GC, radical surgery with curative intent is the ideal treatment. Nevertheless, the intervention sometimes must be palliative if the patient’s status and tumor staging prove too advanced. Methods: A 6-year retrospective cohort study was performed in a tertiary care hospital, including all cases diagnosed with GC (ICD-10 code C16), confirmed through histopathology, and undergoing surgical treatment (N = 108). Results: The results of our study confirm male predominance (63.89%) among GC surgery candidates while bringing new perspectives on patient evaluation criteria and choice of surgical intervention (curative—Group 1, palliative—Group 2). Surgery duration, including anesthesiology (175.19 [95% CI (157.60–192.77)] min), shows a direct correlation with the number of lymph nodes dissected (Surgical duration [min] = 10.67 × No. of lymph nodes removed − 32.25). Interestingly, the aggressiveness of the tumor based on histological grade (highly differentiated being generally less aggressive than poorly differentiated) shows differential correlation with surgery duration among curative and palliative surgery candidates. Similarly, TNM staging indicates the need for a longer surgical duration (pTNM stage IIA, IIB, and IIIA) for curative interventions in patients with less advanced stages, as opposed to shorter surgery duration for palliative interventions (pTNM stage IIIC and IV). Conclusions: The study quantitatively presents the resources needed for the optimal surgical treatment of different groups of GC patients, as the disease coding systems in use regard the treatment of each pathology as “standard” in terms of patient management. The results obtained are anchored in the global perspectives of surgical outcomes and aim to improve the management of operating room scheduling, staff, and resources. Full article
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Impact of Duodenal Stump Reinforcement in Preventing Duodenal Stump Fistula/Leakage After Distal or Total Gastrectomy for Malignant Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Comparative Studies
by Maurizio Zizzo, Andrea Morini, Magda Zanelli, Giuseppe Broggi, Francesca Sanguedolce, Nektarios I. Koufopoulos, Andrea Palicelli, Lucia Mangone, Massimiliano Fabozzi, Mario Giuffrida, Candida Bonelli and Federico Marchesi
Cancers 2025, 17(11), 1735; https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers17111735 - 22 May 2025
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Background/Objectives: Duodenal stump fistula (DSF) is one of the most feared postoperative complications in gastric cancer surgery. It has a 1.6–5% incidence rate and correlates with potentially high rates of morbidity (75%) and mortality (16–20%). The absence of duodenal stump reinforcement is [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: Duodenal stump fistula (DSF) is one of the most feared postoperative complications in gastric cancer surgery. It has a 1.6–5% incidence rate and correlates with potentially high rates of morbidity (75%) and mortality (16–20%). The absence of duodenal stump reinforcement is considered one of the main risk factors. Our meta-analysis aimed to provide updated evidence by comparing DSF rates among patients who underwent distal or total gastrectomy for malignant gastric disease with or without reinforcement of the duodenal stump. Methods: We performed a systematic review following the PRISMA guidelines. PubMed/MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases were used to identify articles of interest. Meta-analysis was performed by using RevMan Version 5.4. Results: The six included comparative studies (19,527 patients: 11,545 reinforcement group versus 7982 control group) covered an approximately 20-year study period (2005–2023). All the studies included were observational in nature. Meta-analysis of pooled results showed that, compared to the control group, the reinforcement group recorded a statistically significant lower DSF rate (OR: 0.32, 95% CI: 0.17, 0.60, p = 0.0004). Considering secondary outcomes, no statistically significant differences were identified between the two groups in terms of operative time, EBL, overall postoperative complications, and length of hospital stay. Just major postoperative complications were considerably lower in the reinforcement group compared to the control group (OR: 0.66, 95% CI: 0.43, 0.99, p = 0.04). Conclusions: Duodenal stump reinforcement appears to reduce the rate of DSF after distal or total gastrectomy for malignant gastric disease. Given the significant biases among meta-analyzed studies, our results require careful interpretation. Further randomized, possibly multicenter trials may turn out to be of paramount importance in confirming our results. Full article
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