"Positive peritoneal lavage cytology (PLC) is a strong predictor of subsequent frank peritoneal dissemination. The prognosis for patients with positive PLC is as poor as with macroscopic peritoneal dissemination," researchers in Osaka, Japan report (see also Gastric Cancer).
"We examined the clinical efficacy of S-1 chemotherapy against gastric cancer with positive PLC after macroscopically curative resection. Among our gastric cancer patients proving to have positive PLC after operation, 17 treated between 2000 and 2005 and 20 treated between 1986 and 1.999 respectively represented S-1. and non-S-1. groups, between which we compared survival rates. S-1 was …
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