Palliative care for advanced gastric cancer
Year: 2020
Type: review
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Proactive palliative care can effectively relieve symptoms early and effectively as well as improve the quality of life of patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (GAC). AREAS COVERED: The review summarizes palliative care for GAC. GAC caused specific symptoms, such as malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO), bleeding, weight loss, and/or ascites, therefore, these symptoms must be addressed specifically. EXPERT OPINION: Palliative care should start early to control general symptoms, thus may improve the patient's condition to make the patient eligible for anti-cancer treatment. As some stage IV GAC patients can now live longer, palliative interventions become more important. A multimodality interdisciplinary approach is strongly encouraged.
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: G1655421535, G1677944058, Prediction of Pathologic Complete Response by Gene Expression Profiling in Esopha, Molecular Markers of Response to Chemoradiation in Localized Esophageal Cancer, G3386424491, G7623734931, Molecular Biomarkers as Classifiers to Individualize Therapy of Esophagus Cancer, Inhibition of Hedgehog Signaling in Gli-1+Adeno CA of the Esoph or GE junction, G8705956310
OpenAlex ID: W3034351875