Chemotherapy Treatment in Gastric Cancer

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Special ReportsGastrointestinal Cancers (Issue 4)
Volume 4
Issue 1

Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, discusses the challenges of using chemotherapy to treat patients with gastric cancer.

Eric Van Cutsem, MD, PhD, at University Hospitals Gasthuisberg/Leuven in Leuven, Belgium, discusses the challenges of using chemotherapy to treat patients with gastric cancer.

Clinical Pearls:

  • Using trastuzumab or other anti-HER2 agents when treating patients with gastric cancer does not eliminate the need to use chemotherapy.
  • Patients with gastric cancer are often in poor health to begin with and have low tolerance levels and fast occurrances of resistance after undergoing chemotherapy.
  • There is room for growth and improvement in chemotherapy in order to determine if the treatments can contain less toxicities, which remains a challenge for patients in regards to their overall means of survival.

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