The first international congress of specialists in gastrointestinal cancer on Saturday at St. Gall 300 experts new recommendations for the treatment of this cancer have made: In gastric cancer should be added to chemotherapy in early stages of the operation.
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Early chemotherapy increases the chances of recovery from gastrointestinal cancer
St. Gallen. - This would increase the chances of recovery "strong", is Professor Florian Otto, a specialist in hematology and oncology at the cancer and breast center at St. Gallen ZeTuP quoted on Sunday in a statement.
Further recommend that cancer specialists, "and then treatment with the aim of trying to cure cancer, if can already detect single tumor cells into the abdominal cavity."
New findings have also existed for the treatment of cancer in the transitional zone between the esophagus and stomach. It would involve two different types of tumors, "which are also treated differently" would have said Otto.
The recommendations will now be formulated into a so-called consensus. Then will this multi-stage process in a constant along with the participants of the conference, the consensus will tend to the global standard, it is said in the statement.
The experts could not agree however on expensive new methods for determining how far cancer has spread esophagus. Here we have yet to collect a few experiences.
Otto had called the three-day meeting on Gastrointestinal Cancer in St. Gallen, together contribute to the specialists from around the world their findings. The congress will take place every two years.
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