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Sunggeun Kim; Chohyun Park; Kyungmi Kim; Jaegue Kim; Hyungho Kim; Wongsang Park; Jongjae Park; Munsu Lee; Hyunchul Jung; Hunyong Jung; Sangwook Han; Woojin Hyung; Sungyeop Ryu; Wook Kim; Junghwan Yook; Heicheul Jeung; Inho Jung; Dojoong Park; Sanghun Oh; Keunwon Ryu; Hyungmin Chin; Sangho Lee; Minchan Kim

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Journal of Gastric Cancer

Journal of Gastric Cancer 2010; 10(3): 141-148.

Published online: 30 September 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5230/jgc.2010.10.3.141

A Report on "Debates on the Strategy for Treating Gastric Cancer" at the Congress of the Korean Gastric Cancer Association

Sunggeun Kim¹, Chohyun Park¹, Kyungmi Kim², Jaegue Kim³, Hyungho Kim⁴, Wongsang Park⁵, Jongjae Park⁶, Munsu Lee⁷, Hyunchul Jung⁸, Hunyong Jung⁹, Sangwook Han¹⁰, Woojin Hyung¹¹, Sungyeop Ryu¹², Wook Kim¹, Junghwan Yook¹³, Heicheul Jeung¹⁴, Inho Jung¹⁵, Dojoong Park⁴, Sanghun Oh¹⁶, Keunwon Ryu¹⁷, Hyungmin Chin¹, Sangho Lee¹⁸, Minchan Kim¹⁹; The Academic Committee of The Korean Gastric Cancer Association

¹Department of Surgery, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

²Department of Pathology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.

³Department of Gastroenterology, Choongang University, Seoul, Korea.

⁴Department of Surgery, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.

⁵Department of Pathology, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

⁷Department of Surgery, Soonchunhyang University, Cheonan, Korea.

⁸Department of Oncology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

⁹Department of Oncology, Ulsan University, Seoul, Korea.

¹⁰Department of Surgery, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea.

¹¹Department of Surgery, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

¹²Department of Surgery, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea.

¹³Department of Surgery, Ulsan University, Seoul, Korea.

¹⁴Department of Gastroenterology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

¹⁵Department of Surgery, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea.

¹⁶Department of Surgery, Inje University, Busan, Korea.

¹⁷Department of Surgery, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea.

¹⁸Department of Surgery, Kosin University, Busan, Korea.

¹⁹Department of Surgery, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea.

Correspondence to: Chohyun Park. Divsision of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, 505, Banpo-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul 137-701, Korea. Tel: +82-2-2258-2876, 6099, Fax: +82-2-595-2822, chpark@catholic.ac.kr

Received 10 May 2010 Accepted 27 May 2010

Abstract

We have always attempted to create a standard treatment protocol for patients with gastric cancer. However, many debates still exist regarding gastric cancer treatment. For the past 2 years, at the Annual Congress of the Korean Gastric Cancer Association, we have presented a grand symposium on the "Debates on the strategy for treating gastric cancer". In 2008, four major topics were discussed and voted on after discussion. The four major topics were proximal location treatment for early gastric cancer, management choices for pyloric obstruction with advanced gastric cancer, management of liver metastasis, and reconstruction methods after a distal gastrectomy. The opinions of the audience for six minor topics were expressed by an electronic voting system. In 2009, the four main topics were treatment for submucosal tumor sized around 2 cm, laparoscopic gastrectomy in T2N1 gastric cancer, choices for managing gastric lymphoma, and application of a pylorus preserving procedure for early gastric cancer at the antrum. The opinions of the audience for these six minor topics were expressed by an electronic voting system, as was conducted in 2008. It was good opportunity to identify a point of contact about the debates on managing gastric cancer. The results of these debates and studies will identify the best methods to treat patients with gastric cancer.

Keywords: Gastric cancer, Debate, Nationwide survey

Figures and Tables

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Choice of the operation for early gastric cancer located at proximal part of stomach.

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Choice in case of pyloric obstruction with advanced stomach cancer.

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Choice of management for hepatic metastasis.

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Choice of reconstruction aft er subtotal gastrectomy.

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Management for submucosal tumor sized around 2 cm.

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Agreement with laparoscopic gastrectomy in case of T2N1 gastric cancer.

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Management for gastric lymphoma.

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Choice for resection for early gastric cancer at distal part of stomach.

Table 1

A personnel setup of voters on 25^th and 27^th congress of Korean gastric cancer association

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