Thinking of the application of membrane anatomy in gastric cancer surgery after neoadjuvant therapy
10.3760/cma.j.cn.441530-20200430-00249
- VernacularTitle:膜解剖理念在新辅助治疗胃癌患者手术中的应用思考
- Author:
Dongbing ZHAO
1
;
Xiaojie ZHANG
Author Information
1. 国家癌症中心 国家肿瘤临床医学研究中心 中国医学科学院北京协和医学院肿瘤医院胰胃外科 100021
- Keywords:
Stomach neoplasms;
Membrane anatomy;
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy;
D2 radical surgery
- From:
Chinese Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery
2020;23(7):657-660
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The standard treatment for advanced gastric cancer remains surgery-based comprehensive treatment. The D2 radical surgery has made outstanding contributions to the standarlization of gastric cancer surgery, which has improved patients' prognosis and quality of life. In recent years, neoadjuvant chemotherapy has achieved a certain effect on the treatment of advanced gastric cancer. With the continuous development of the concept of membrane anatomy in gastric cancer surgery, new surgical challenges have also been raised. For patients after neoadjuvant therapy, there is heated controversy in the possibility of completing radical gastrectomy with membrane anatomical concept for gastric cancer. We believe that if neoadjuvant therapy pushes mesenteric cancer cell back into the mesentery, theoretically membrane anatomy combined with neoadjuvant therapy is beneficial to the treatment efficacy of advanced gastric cancer. However, membrane anatomy has two important problems when combined with neoadjuvant therapy: (1) After neoadjuvant chemotherapy, there are varying degrees of edema around the stomach tissue, which will affect the visualization of anatomic planes. In addition, because the patients' coagulation function is damaged to a certain extent, it is difficult to avoid bleeding or minimize bleeding during the operation. Therefore, it is still controversial whether the patients with gastric cancer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy can undergo radical gastrectomy with membrane anatomy. (2) For patients with complete pathological remission, whether to obtain the maximum rate of pathological remission through intensive neoadjuvant therapy, or to obtain the survival benefit of patients with membrane anatomy surgery in clinic is still controversial. Faced with these confusions, multi-center clinical researches on the application of membrane anatomy surgery after neoadjuvant therapy is the only solution.