Pre-operative chemotherapy is the key to the next stage of gastric cancer treatment

Currently, surgery remains the only approach to cure gastric cancer. However, improvement of prognosis by surgical resection alone is limited, and peri-operative chemotherapy is necessary (1). In recent years, several large clinical trials have shown the effectiveness of adjuvant post-operative chemotherapy for gastric cancer (2-4). In contrast, the usefulness of adjuvant pre-operative chemotherapy has not been fully demonstrated.