Anxiety and depression in patients with gastrointestinal cancer

Episode 04 - Treatment of Early Gastric Cancer

Listen Later
  • The reason that gastric cancer caries such a poor prognosis is that the presentation is invariably late in the natural history of the disease, with local extension or metastatic disease rendering the condition inoperable.
  • Whilst chemotherapy, both neo-adjuvant and palliative, has a demonstrated role in improving survival in patients with gastric cancer, resection with curative intent offers the only real chance of long-term survival in patients with operable disease. 
    • ...more
    View all episodesView all episodes
    Download on the App Store
    Anxiety and depression in patients with gastrointestinal cancerBy Farkas Szabolcs