Optimal Management of Gastric Cancer Results From an International RAND/UCLA Expert Panel
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2014-01-01
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Coburn, Natalie
Seevaratnam, Rajini
Paszat, Lawrence
Helyer, Lucy
Law, Calvin
Swallow, Carol
Cardosa, Roberta
Mahar, Alyson
Lourenço, Laércio Gomes [UNIFESP]
Dixon, Matthew
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Objective: Defining processes of care, which are appropriate and necessary for management of gastric cancer (GC), is an important step toward improving outcomes.Methods: Using a RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method, an international multidisciplinary expert panel created 22 statements reflecting optimal management. All statements were scored for appropriateness and necessity.Results: the following tenets were scored appropriate and necessary: (1) preoperative staging by computed tomography of abdomen/pelvis; (2) positron-emission tomographic scans not routinely indicated; (3) consideration for adjuvant therapy; (4) further clinical trials; (5) multidisciplinary decision making; (6) sufficient support at hospitals; (7) assessment of 16 or more lymph nodes (LNs); (8) in metastatic disease, surgery only for palliation of major symptoms; (9) surgeons experienced in GC management; (10) and surgeons experienced in both GC management and advanced laparoscopic surgery for laparoscopic resection. the following were scored appropriate, but of indeterminate necessity: (1) diagnostic laparoscopy before treatment; (2) a multidisciplinary approach to linitis plastica; (3) genetic assessment for diffuse GC and family history, or age less than 45 years; (4) endoscopic removal of select T1aN0 lesions; (5) D2 LN dissection in curative intent cases; (6) D1 LN dissection for early GC or patients with comorbidities; (7) frozen section analysis of margins; (8) nonemergent cases performed in a hospital with a volume of more than 15 resections per year; and (9) by a surgeon with more than 6 resection per year.Conclusions: the expert panel has created 22 statements for the perioperative management of GC patients, to provide guidance to clinicians and improve the care received by patients.
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Annals of Surgery. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, v. 259, n. 1, p. 102-108, 2014.