Preoperative chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced gastric cancer

To examine toxicity and outcomes for patients treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for gastric cancer.Patients with gastroesophageal (GE) junction (Siewert type II and III) or gastric adenocarcinoma who underwent neoadjuvant CRT followed by planned surgical resection at Duke University between 1987 and 2009 were reviewed. Overall survival (OS), local control (LC) and disease-free survival (DFS) were estimated using the Kaplan-Meier...